Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by danso on Monday March 19, 2018 @04:09PM
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I'll admit that I'm of the GP's mind in wanting to know what you consider to be "evidence". Because you keep reiterating this sentiment:
> I'm not saying that autonomous vehicles are safer, I'm saying this isn't evidence that autonomous vehicles are less safe.
It's true that we need to wait for more information about this particular incident -- which is exactly the caveat that the commenter you initially responded to had said [0]. But assuming the facts aren't abnormally different than what they seem to be -- an Uber AV hit and killed a jaywalker, how is that not evidence toward the argument that AVs are less safe? It obviously isn't conclusive evidence. But if Uber goes on to kill a pedestrian for every million miles driven, this first data point would surely be part of the empirical evidence, no?
> I'm not saying that autonomous vehicles are safer, I'm saying this isn't evidence that autonomous vehicles are less safe.
It's true that we need to wait for more information about this particular incident -- which is exactly the caveat that the commenter you initially responded to had said [0]. But assuming the facts aren't abnormally different than what they seem to be -- an Uber AV hit and killed a jaywalker, how is that not evidence toward the argument that AVs are less safe? It obviously isn't conclusive evidence. But if Uber goes on to kill a pedestrian for every million miles driven, this first data point would surely be part of the empirical evidence, no?
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620042