Re:Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously compl...
by dontreact on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:51AM
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Humans have an average of 1 fatality per 100 million miles driven. No one is anywhere close to 100 million miles without intervention.
Re:Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously compl...
by brailsafe on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @04:22AM
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Are there any fully autonomous cars on public roads with no driver that can intervene? Seems like only maybe in tightly constrained situations are we ready.
Re:Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously compl...
by tsukurimashou on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @07:29AM
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I don't think I mentioned FULLY autonomous cars, my point was: something doesn't have to be perfect before we have to use it, but I probably didn't express myself correctly
Re:Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously compl...
by brailsafe on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @12:23PM
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I think that the necessity of intervening drivers atm indicates that we aren't at that point yet, even if that point is far from perfection, and also that the reason any self-driving cars are on the road is because of the fairly loose but significant requirements from regulation. We might be at that point in otherwise very dangerous situations, like if I was very tired or drunk, but otherwise I don't know that I'd have so much faith in software engineers to completely control my car.
if it was the case self driving cars wouldn't be on the road, I don't think we should aim for perfection, perfection will come. We should be looking for cars that make less errors on average than humans, once you have that you can start putting cars on the road and use data from the fleet to correct remaining errors.