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A comment on How Many Miles of Driving to Demonstrate Autonomous Vehicle Reliability? (2016). Parent comment

Re:How Many Miles of Driving to Demonstrate Autonomous Vehic... by gambiting on Monday June 25, 2018 @07:50AM (#17391561)
>> If we can have self-driving vehicles that are twice as safe as the average human, then they should be allowed on the streets.

Absolutely disagree with this approach. Self driving cars can't be merely slightly better than your average human - they need to be completely flawless. Just like an airplane autopilot can't be just a bit better than a human pilot, it needs to be 100% reliable.

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Re:How Many Miles of Driving to Demonstrate Autonomous Vehic... by Nasrudith on Monday June 25, 2018 @09:39AM (#17392303)
Why exactly? Wouldn't that be akin to limiting medication to dried herbs of irregular purity and dosage because synthetic medicine cannot cure AIDS with antibiotics?

Even at the most risk adverse "needs to be better than both a human pilot alone or a human supervising it with overrides" would be a saner standard for autonomous operation. Since there have been cases of crashes from overriding an autopilot when it was judged as wrong but was actually right.

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