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Re:Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars by linuxftw on Thursday April 11, 2019 @12:55PM (#19636587)
> It seems to me that self-driving cars can't be just as safe as the status quo, but have to be far far better. It's an unreasonable need, but human nature.

They need to be safer than me, not the average driver. I suspect the lower 50% of drivers cause > 50% of the collisions.

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Re:Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars by dragonwriter on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:01PM (#19636663)
> They need to be safer than me, not the average driver

But I'd they are safer than the average driver, you gain from their widespread adoption even if they aren't safer than you. Because you don't have the choice of replacing other drivers with you...

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Re:Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars by linuxftw on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:20PM (#19636883)
Defensive driving allows me to counter most bad drivers.

If we're talking about removing dangerous drivers from the road, I'm all for it. It should be next to impossible to get a license for most people, if what we really care about is safety.

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