Re:Tesla Intrigue Deepens with Musk's Twitter Barrage
by erikpukinskis on Monday April 04, 2016 @05:48PM
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I would VASTLY prefer to be in that car than to be in a different car with a human driver and watch a person get killed by the vehicle I'm riding in.
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Re:Tesla Intrigue Deepens with Musk's Twitter Barrage
by marssaxman on Monday April 04, 2016 @06:54PM
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Nobody is going to die from a 5 mph collision. It's not even likely to break any bones. At 30 mph, the chance of death is still only 5%!
There may still be reasons to prefer robot cars for low-speed environments but the probability of such a vehicle striking and killing a pedestrian is already very low, so that is not relevant to a discussion of a robot car's ability to stop very rapidly at very low speeds.
http://www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/research/pub/HS809012.htm...