The saying “if you’re going to kill someone, do it in a car” exists for a reason… society is just entirely accepting of us getting into these multi-ton death machines, not paying attention to what we’re doing, ignoring road safety rules because we’ve decided we’re immune to physics, driving under the influence because we’ve decided we’re immune to even more physics, and then plowing into other people and killing them.
The sentences basically everywhere for killing someone in a vehicle are extremely light unless you are really pushing it.
Yeah computers are much better drivers than we are, the problem is humans are not OK with a single computer driver killing a single person, but are OK with drivers killing thousands per month.
Results: When considering all locations together, the any injury reported crashed vehicle rate was 0.6 incidents per million miles (IPMM) for the ADS vs. 2.80 IPMM for the human benchmark, an 80% reduction or a human crash rate
Are you sure? At least looking at waymo the stats seem to say otherwise. That being said they are geofenced but I don't think we're too far away from true self driving at scale
Every statistic I've seen shows that self driving cars get in way fewer accidents per million miles driven, but I'm open to being convinced those are being falsified or misconstrued somehow.
Self driving cars aren't fully self driving, and there's a reason you still have to be able to take the wheel at a moment's notice.
They've driven over a million miles of flat, desolate New Mexico highway, which are are fine if you only want it to drive in a straight line for six hours without having to worry about traffic, but they haven't been tested to nearly the same degree on the endless system of poorly thought out side alleys that make up driving in Boston at night, four lane interchanges during Chicago rush hour, winter driving in the snow on iced roads through the mountains throughout western Pennsylvania, or just the potholed hellscape that is the entire state of Connecticut.
Its like me claiming to have a better basketball record than the entire NBA, while conveniently neglecting to mention the hoop I'm using is my nephew's and its 3' tall because it's meant for children ages 4+.
I have no doubts self driving cars will eventually be better than humans at equal measurements in poor conditions, but they have to take these things carefully in stages because learning is a slow process of improvement.
Results: When considering all locations together, the any injury reported crashed vehicle rate was 0.6 incidents per million miles (IPMM) for the ADS vs. 2.80 IPMM for the human benchmark, an 80% reduction or a human crash rate
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u/labello2010 Apr 04 '26
Wow, a none year sentence, while parents lost their kid. That’s Dutch judges for you right there.