Are self-driving cars safer than human drivers?

Re:Are self-driving cars safer than human drivers? by yazaddaruvala on Monday June 14, 2021 @02:54AM (#27500012)

As I’ve understood it, this notion is a fallacy.

Some drivers are “better than others” but there are no “good drivers”.

Everyone gets tired, everyone’s gets older, everyone gets distracted, everyone drives in a new location (potentially with a different driving style).

I don’t know when it tips to be better off with the computer, but I’ll feel comfortable as soon as the crash/fatalities rates are equal or better than Uber/Lyft.

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Re:Are self-driving cars safer than human drivers? by wubawam on Monday June 14, 2021 @03:23AM (#27500176)

This is just semantics, there are people who are better at driving than most others will be in less crashes per mile driven over time.

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Re:Are self-driving cars safer than human drivers? by transportguy on Monday June 14, 2021 @03:15AM (#27500138)

So if there are no 'good drivers', everyone must be a 'bad driver', so if self driving cars are to be 'good', they need to be better than at least 100% of humans. High bar!

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Re:Are self-driving cars safer than human drivers? by transportguy on Monday June 14, 2021 @03:16AM (#27500146)

also, we have ways of testing tiredness and effects of age, so augmentation can improve many of the issues with human driving.

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