Re:Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?
by brookst on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:05AM
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> self-driving cars should drive conservatively
I agree, but the specifics get tricky. It is possible to drive so conservatively that it’s unpredictable and therefore dangerous.
I’ve known some terrible conservative drivers in my time; I was a passenger with someone who stopped abruptly in an intersection despite having a green light because they were afraid someone else was going to run the red (while it’s fair to say the person who rear-ended us was at fault, it was an accident that would not happen with a more normal driver).
Maybe I’m nit picking on the difference between conservative and unsurprising.
Re:Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?
by bhouston on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:29AM
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Yes, conservative should probably mean unsurprising to some degree. Sudden unexpected stops is not truly conservative. Yeah, I can see how the definition is complex.
I agree, but the specifics get tricky. It is possible to drive so conservatively that it’s unpredictable and therefore dangerous.
I’ve known some terrible conservative drivers in my time; I was a passenger with someone who stopped abruptly in an intersection despite having a green light because they were afraid someone else was going to run the red (while it’s fair to say the person who rear-ended us was at fault, it was an accident that would not happen with a more normal driver).
Maybe I’m nit picking on the difference between conservative and unsurprising.