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daed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I understand your issue with these cars - they’re dangerous, and could kill people with incomplete or buggy software. I believe the gentleman you are responding to was pointing out that even with the bugs, these are already safer than human drivers. This is already better when looking at data rather than headlines and going off of how things seem.

Personally, I would prefer to be in control of the vehicle at all times. I don’t like the idea of driverless tech either.

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dsemy@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Currently there are many edge cases which haven’t even been considered yet, so maybe statistically it is safer, but it doesn’t change anything if your car makes a dumb mistake you wouldn’t have and gets you into an accident (or someone else’s car does and they don’t stop it cause they weren’t watching the road).

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redfox@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Well, has anyone do e statistics to show all the self driving cars are more dangerous than regular distracted humans as a whole?

We can always point to numerous self driving car errors and accidents, but I am under the impression that compared to the number of accidents involving people on a daily basis, self driving cars might be safer?

I’m thinking of how many crashes took place in the time it took me to type this out. I’m also curious about the fatality rate between self or assisted driving vs not.

I think we tend to be super critical of new things, especially tech things, which is understandable and appropriate, but it would be nice to see some holistic context. I wish government regulators would publish that we us to help us form informed opinions instead of having to rely on manufacturers (conflict of interest) or journalists.

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