Driverless cars may already be safer than human drivers

Re:Driverless cars may already be safer than human drivers by shagie on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:06PM (#37346325)

The commute home for me in December is "at night". Sunset on December 1st will be at 4:25 pm. For that matter, I'd also be leaving for work before sunrise.

Driverless cars need to be able to operate at all hours, in all seasons, and in all climates and conditions.

If it is considered to be "not safe to operate at night" then the article's title of "Driverless cars may already be safer than human drivers" is working out of cherrypicked conditions in cherrypicked locales.

San Francisco and Phoenix (the places cited in the article) are not representative of the conditions for a significant part of the United States.

Would you rather take a human taxi from Minneapolis airport to Lake City at 6pm on December 1st or a driverless one?

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Re:Driverless cars may already be safer than human drivers by klooney on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:23PM (#37346458)

SF is a very complex city with lots of narrow and weird streets and random obstacles. Phoenix is more representative of most newer, griddy, car friendly cities. Real rural stuff isn't that far away. The one thing they're missing is snow and ice, but I don't know, you can't do everything at once.

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Re:Driverless cars may already be safer than human drivers by kstenerud on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:19PM (#37346429)

SF and Phoenix are representative of areas that contain markets for this. And that's enough of a start.

You don't need to begin by solving the universe.

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