Re:Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?
by hulitu on Friday September 01, 2023 @11:06AM
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> Also, the most dangerous situations happen at high speed
This is a mantra from speed limit fans. There are a lot of dangerous situations happening at low speed (bicicle coming from left in an intersection, children playing )
Re:Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?
by ftrobro on Friday September 01, 2023 @05:40PM
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If you consider those situations dangerous you aren't driving slow enough.
Re:Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?
by ilyt on Friday September 01, 2023 @04:29PM
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The other problem is that even if you have car that can do 95% of the driving and only need 5%...
...that makes the human driver, who normally would get say 10k miles of practice every year will drive... 500 miles on average.
It really does need to be "car can do all of the driving", or else it will be putting people that have zero practice in those hard situations it can't handle.
Re:Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?
by ftrobro on Friday September 01, 2023 @05:47PM
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Yes, I agree. And regardless of experience, people at some point get too old to drive, but don't always want to accept that fact. Having cars that can do 100 % of the driving would be great.
Not every human driver can solve every situation that the best human driver can solve. Also, the most dangerous situations happen at high speed, which humans aren't great at handling unless we've had a lot of training. The main reason I'm optimistic about autonomous cars is that a system like Waymo's will only get better and better over the years. And newly produced cars will be just as good as "experienced" cars.