Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by Thaxll on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:41PM
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Probably not since Google drove millions of KM without a single fatality.
Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by danso on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:48PM
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As of late 2017, Google/Waymo had recorded just 4 million miles of real-world self-driving in its entire history: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/27/waymo-racks-up-4-million-s...
NHTSA data measures number of fatalities by the hundreds of millions of miles driven -- the latest rate being 1.18 fatalities per 100 million miles: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/usdot-releases-2016-fat...
Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by Frondo on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:47PM
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Yes, absolutely, let's ostracize people who react to this situation (a machine killing some random person in a fatal beta test) with anything other than compassion and humility.
Those are not people I want in my engineering community; just impossible to trust they'd make the right calls and have the right priorities in developing cool new stuff.
How many self-driving cars are there on the roads right now? And what's fatality rate? I' quite sure it's higher now than compared to human-only driver.
> they are unavoidable sometimes
Were autonomous cars not designed to prevent such situations?
>Let's, as a community, set the standard for how we will react to these events
Yes and let's punish non-conformists!
> which gets posted on HN whenever a self-driving article comes out.
I honestly have no idea what that comment is.