Re:Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars
by jakeinspace on Thursday April 11, 2019 @12:03PM
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If autonomous driving can be delivered with accident-causing failure rates similar to those of general manufacturer defects (i.e., much lower odds than accidents caused by human error), then I think that would be sufficient. But if say we go from ~35k human-caused road deaths/year to ~10k autonomous-driving caused deaths/year, that may be seen as unacceptably high.
Re:Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars
by naasking on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:42PM
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> But if say we go from ~35k human-caused road deaths/year to ~10k autonomous-driving caused deaths/year, that may be seen as unacceptably high.
Sure, but there wouldn't be an outright ban. They'd instead establish higher standards that need to be met.
This has already happened with manufacturer defects. It's just more of the same. As long as a clear liability boundary can be established in principle, there's no problem.