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A comment on Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11. Parent comment

Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by brianwawok on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:06PM (#11490662)
> For self-driving cars to be safer than human drivers, there is no requirement that the self-driving cars should be better/safer than the best human driver... the self-driving car simply needs to be safer than the majority of humans.

That is true on a whole, but not true for ME. It needs to be safer than ME, not some hypotehtical average person.

Further compounding it:

> For driving skills, 93% of the U.S. sample and 69% of the Swedish sample put themselves in the top 50% [0]

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority

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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by lfowles on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @04:40PM (#11492011)
Consider that most driving is done feet away from another vehicle. If those cars start being replaced by self-driving cars, then the you are safer (system safety x personal safety). The car might make more dubious decisions than you would yourself, but now it has less opportunities for failure due to others driving erratically.
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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by dagss on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @04:41PM (#11492020)
Somebody can crash into you.
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