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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by slavik81 on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @02:30AM (#16695830)
No, Uber's self-driving vehicles are significantly more deadly on a per-mile basis. That's the whole problem.
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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by shafyy on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @04:36PM (#16701668)
I'm not talking about Uber. I mean in total across companies (incl. Waymo).
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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by slavik81 on Thursday March 29, 2018 @05:36PM (#16711281)
The human driver fatality rate is roughly 1 per 100M miles. There has been 1 fatality with less than 20M self-driving miles across all companies. So, if you group all the companies together, they are still more dangerous than human drivers.

But frankly, I think grouping Uber together with more responsible companies does the whole industry a disservice.

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