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Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by anfilt on Sunday April 18, 2021 @11:34PM (#26858911)
There is also an other problem with only trying to better than average driver. If your system is only slightly better than average. That means basically 1 out of 2 people are better than your software.

Autonomous, driving should be multiple sigmas better than average. Especially given the reaction times that are possible for a computer vs a human.

If its only good as average a large amount of drivers would be safer to drive themselves.

Basically it should be as good if not better than the most capable drivers. Average is way to low of a bar to aim for.

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Re:Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving by davrosthedalek on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:38AM (#26862034)
The reaction time is actually an interesting question. Reactions in humans which do not require thought/planning can be quite quick, and the human vision system is /very/ quick, especially for movement. How fast is the vision system in a Tesla? Not only frequency, what's the latency from vision change to decision? My guess is the Tesla is faster, but by less than an order of magnitude. I would not be surprised that it's slower for some cases. But I really don't know.
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