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What is the comparison to human-operated vehicles?

• lawlessone 12y ago
  These were human-operated vehicles.
• deathanatos 12y ago
  > "Safety is our highest priority. Since the start of our programme six years ago, we've driven nearly a million miles autonomously, on both freeways and city streets, without causing a single accident," said a spokesperson. Assuming the spokesperson is correct here, this would seem far better than most humans on the road. According to this article[1] (also about driverless cars): > To put that into perspective, the average U.S. driver has one accident roughly every 165,000 miles. Here's how we got that figure: our average mileage per year is 16,550, according to the Federal Highway Administration; the average length of time we go between traffic accidents is 10 years, according to Allstate. And since, according to the article, it doesn't seem like they've yet caused accidents, I would presume that "million miles" figure is still on the rise. [1]: http://mashable.com/2012/08/07/google-driverless-cars-safer-than-you/ http://mashable.com/2012/08/07/google-driverless-cars-safer-...
  • Thrymr 12y ago
    Isn't this mixing two different things? The average driver "has" one accident per 165,000 miles, driverless cars haven't "caused" an accident. The current article discusses accidents not included in this Mashable calculation. Even if driverless cars don't "cause" accidents, they may be involved in more accidents per mile (I don't think we know yet publicly). It may be the case that human drivers are better at avoiding unexpected dangerous situations, for example.