Re:Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]
by platz on Monday February 03, 2020 @07:23PM
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Would you accept a higher risk of accident for you and your children, if it meant that an order of magnitude more other bad drivers would be saved?
Also keep in mind the outrage factor. The reason airplane crashes are so feared is because of the loss of control. Meanwhile alcohol and cars are much more dangerous but much lower outrage because you still feel like you have some control.
Most people are simply not careful drivers all the time. This is one major advantage computers have - they don't get tired or distracted.
Time will tell as we get more data about supervised driving, but I think it's inaccurate to say we don't have data yet, it is imperfect of course, but it does point to computers being safer than humans in some very common conditions over millions of miles.