Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety is far from enough

Re:Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety... by dunefox on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @12:17PM (#25583524)

> Bad drivers are mostly a danger to themselves.

Source? It seems only logical that the number of accidental deaths goes up with the number of bad drivers on the road - not just because they kill themselves.

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Re:Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety... by degrews on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @12:31PM (#25583678)

I just mean that a disproportionate amount of the danger created by bad drivers is to themselves. I don't have a source, but I think this is obvious.

My point is that, even if we lower the total death count, the safest drivers could still end up at greater risk, because a disproportionate amount of the reduction in deaths will go to bad drivers.

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Re:Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety... by sliken on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:41PM (#25584568)

The most common accidents are a car hitting a non-car.

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Re:Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety... by dunefox on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:58PM (#25584743)

Source?

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Re:Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety... by sliken on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @02:19PM (#25584968)

IIHS says "Nationwide, 53 percent of motor vehicle crash deaths in 2018 occurred in single-vehicle crashes." The other categories being multi-vehicle and property only.

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Re:Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety... by the8472 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @02:55PM (#25585324)

How does that factor in pedestrians? Do they count as deaths in signle-vehicle deaths?

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