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Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality by esalman on Thursday September 13, 2018 @07:12PM (#17983523)
My machine learning professor used to say that people tend to sensationalize self-driving car fatalities, without realizing that if every car on the road was self-driving, deaths would go close to zero.

I think the hard part of the problem is the infrastructure. Everyone wants to fix the cars, but they'll leave the hard part to the government- which is the development of autonomous-ready infrastructure.

Re:Driverless Hype Collides with Merciless Reality by rohit2412 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @09:27PM (#17984083)
I think we need to distinguish between assistive technologies, ADAS, self driving, autonomous, and driverless. They don't mean the same thing but are all interchanged.

For your professor, yes assistive technology like lane keeping assist and collision avoidance will save lives, but are no reason to go driverless.