injuries per 100 million
Are you asking for a budget of free kills for your car?
Comment on Cruise halts SF service as Calif. DMV shuts down driverless car permits
burliman@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Driverless cars will have an impossible standard to live up to. California has 48.5 injuries per 100 million miles driven (and 1.4 deaths). Unless that is zero with driverless cars, then the public will see an unreasonable risk. Any single accident gets tons of press… I found it very difficult to find an objective injury rate for driverless cars. Probably because there are five levels of automation, and many of them allow human error to come into play. Also they are self reported by the driver companies.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Somewhere below the rate for human drivers…
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
below the rate for human drivers…
As a human driver, you know you have zero free kills. Your car must then be able to resurrect at least one dead person.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If the total number of road deaths decreases then it’s a net benefit, regardless of whether some were killed by automation or some were killed by human error. I just want the number to decrease. It will never be zero. Don’t make good the enemy of perfect.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Really sounds like it was more that the company tried to hide that their car started driving again with someone trapped underneath.
burliman@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah, this incident and response makes more sense. But it is another case in point of the difficulties driverless companies will have. I drive a lot and I see the stupidest things. I’m sure we all have stories. With this story it is very easy to imagine a clueless driver doing the same.
But the best way to avoid crashes is to be predictable. Isn’t much more predictable than a bunch of self driven cars with no emotions.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
True. But if a clueless driver tried to hide that they started driving again with someone trapped underneath, we view that as a criminal act.
I could totally see and even understand not knowing they were under the car and so trying to clear the scene of the accident.
It’s the specific attempt to obscure that it happened. If a human did that, loosing their license is basically the bare minimum I’d expect.
This isn’t an issue with the technology, but an issue with the company not being able to be relied upon to develop the technology in public in a safe fashion.
burliman@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Agreed, hiding it was a terrible idea and should be punished.
AcornCarnage@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sure, but who HASN’T done that?