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Re:A Tragic Loss by jgalt212 on Thursday June 30, 2016 @06:37PM (#12012390)
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.
Re:A Tragic Loss by semi-extrinsic on Thursday June 30, 2016 @06:58PM (#12012509)
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.
Re:A Tragic Loss by xiphias on Thursday June 30, 2016 @07:25PM (#12012678)
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.