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.
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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.