Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'

Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by monodeldiablo on Saturday January 18, 2020 @03:33PM (#22086962)

Travel by plane is orders of magnitude safer than by car. Your odds of dying in a traffic accident are close to 1:100. Your odds of dying in an air accident are closer to 1:10,000.

If anything, I think your example underlines just how valuable and realistic this is for cars.

Full autonomy was always, IMHO, a silly pipe dream. But that doesn't mean that there isn't tremendous value -- in terms of safety, time, money and environment -- to partial autonomy.

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Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by agumonkey on Saturday January 18, 2020 @03:41PM (#22087018)

> If anything, I think your example underlines just how valuable and realistic this is for cars.

I interpret the stats the other way. Cars are not planes and driving involves constant encounters with potential collisions and which would make level 5 too difficult technically and socially rendering them too costly to be valuable.

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