That’s an apples to oranges comparison. Self driving cars aren’t driving on the same roads and in the same conditions. Maybe they’re better, but that hasn’t really been tested/evaluated.
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halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 months agoPer mile driven, all of these autonomous systems are statistically better than humans at driving.
It’s mostly because humans are dogshit at driving, but you are a lot safer using these systems than not, despite media reporting.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Sir, your whole family died in a waymo accident.
First of all, statistically, the chance was bigger that they didn’t die. And now leave the billionaires alone.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s only because they don’t drive that fast, and they just dump most problems to a human driver. If a self-driving car stopped in the middle of an intersection and a human driver hit it, the blame would legally fall on the human despite the fact that the self-driving car caused the issue.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Liability of an accident doesn’t factor into those statistics. They include all accidents regardless of blame.
And you act like that exact scenario hasn’t happened with human drivers. In Arizona alone, 3.5 people die every day in traffic incidents. Given the number of dumb fuck road ragers brake checking other drivers on the road, stopping in the middle of an intersection and getting hit probably happens at least once a day, probably more.
Yet even with all those fatalities, and other accidents in general, the autonomous systems still have fewer incidents per mile driven.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 2 months ago
These cars were banned from CA roads because they had too many safety issues. That’s why they’re in AZ. One company didn’t address the issue so the CA DMV threatened to pull their registration completely.
npr.org/…/california-orders-cruise-driverless-car…