Re:A Tragic Loss
by jgalt212 on Thursday June 30, 2016 @06:37PM
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That's very true, but if you know your product well enough, and you perform well conducted experiments, you can come up with a good estimate for this without actually having your cars travel 100 billion miles.
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Re:A Tragic Loss
by semi-extrinsic on Thursday June 30, 2016 @06:58PM
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Sure. The main issue with that is the unknown unknowns. In hypothetical cars an order of magnitude safer than today, we're talking about events so rare that a single (hypothetical) accident which kills all 7 passengers due to the Tesla misinterpreting an obscure Hungarian road sign meaning "bridge out ahead" will significantly influence your safety statistics.
There are enough youtube videos with people falling asleep in Tesla on the highway and a Tesla switching lanes and almost causing a frontal crash. These are known problems.
Maybe a billion miles are needed for a fatal crash, but for small mistakes it's much less.