Re:Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars
by rlonstein on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:28PM
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Quibbling... 28% in 2016 (https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...), but this is after decades of awareness campaigns and enforcement. Then there's the ~70% of fatal accidents that happen with sober drivers. There might not be more to be had by addressing human factors (though I personally believe graduated licenses with more rigorous testing and much higher investments in public transit would help) so the focus on self-driving vehicles may not be misguided.
I find it interesting that the apparent objective is to make driving safer, but apparently the powers that be have decided that it is easier to make cars that drive themselves than to convince people not to drive while drunk.