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Re:Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock by zaroth on Thursday July 05, 2018 @09:43PM (#17468322)
You’re incorrectly assuming that a solution to the problem of self-driving a car is a superset of the problem of passive accident avoidance.

If the software is in active control pretty much everything that goes into that is different from software that is deciding if and when to emergency brake.

To put it another way, a self-driving system will become safer than human drivers, not because it knows how/when to emergency brake really well, but because it won’t have to emergency brake as frequently as a human does.

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Re:Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock by legolas2412 on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:27PM (#17468436)
Sure, I understand that a driverless system might prevent accidents by strictly maintaining safe distances. But the benchmark still can't be unaided human, rather a human aided by the best assistive technology that can be built (say by the same company).
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