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In the last 8 months: - Number of human-driving auto accidents in US: ~10.6 mil - Number of self-driving auto accidents in US: 4 Guess which one merited an arti
by chrisamiller 11y ago
In the last 8 months:
- Number of human-driving auto accidents in US: ~10.6 mil
- Number of self-driving auto accidents in US: 4
Guess which one merited an article?
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Editing to add that all 4 crashes were apparently caused by human drivers https://twitter.com/msquinn/status/597738756511277056 https://twitter.com/msquinn/status/597738756511277056
- giarc 11y agoI think you also need to consider the number of regular cars vs the number of self driving cars.
- chrisamiller 11y agoYeah, rates are important, but also small sample size (and who's at fault matters - the companies claim that human drivers caused all 4). So you're not wrong, but my point is that humans are awful drivers, prone to distraction and fatal crashes. (32,719 in 2013 alone). If anything else (terrorists, sharks, aliens) were causing 30k deaths a year, we'd wouldn't be blithely accepting it as the status quo and acting fearful of measures that could dramatically ameliorate the problem.
- vjvj 11y agoThere are 255m cars in the US (1). 10.6m accidents represents 0.04 accidents per car. 4 out of 48 self driving cars in California have been involved in accidents which is 0.8 accidents per car. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_United_States#Total_number_of_vehicles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unit...