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Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by wutbrodo on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:55PM (#30173879)
> people are going to get injured and or killed by unusual real-world events riding in these autonomous cars

I don't think anyone inside or outside of the AV industry is expecting that there will be zero injuries or fatalities involving AVs. Why would that be the bar, when AV rides displace human drives that already injure and kill tens of thousands?

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Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by gibsonf1 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:42AM (#30179123)
The difference would be frequency of injury and/or death as AV cars can't think and react dynamically to non-pattern situations.
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Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by wutbrodo on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @06:00PM (#30185416)
Sure, and they can't get drunk or fall asleep either. Even for taking for granted that AVs can't find an operating domain in which "non-pattern situations" are covered by failsafes, it's far from obvious that the net advantage goes to human drivers.
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