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Re:Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on... by scarejunba on Thursday September 05, 2019 @05:56AM (#20885255)
He has a point, right? There's a possibility of clear sampling bias: if there are X miles that are safe and Y miles that are dangerous and autopilot can only be engaged in the X miles, then it's not creating safety, but the partitioning will cause it to appear to be safer than the human. If the partitioning had been done without autopilot the two partitions may show similar behaviour.
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Re:Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on... by saalweachter on Thursday September 05, 2019 @08:20AM (#20885894)
For an analogy, you've got two surgeons, one who only takes cases where he is extremely confident he can operate successfully, and one who takes the cases no one else will. The first loses 1% of his patients on the table, the second 20%. Which person is the better surgeon?
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