Re:Driver hits woman in S.F., then Cruise driverless car run...
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @11:23AM
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> National Law Review (look it up or see associated link below)
Your Carsurance source cites the National Law Review, which cites the Carsurance source for that statistic [1]. It’s important to consider from when they polled data and how they’re segregating by manufacturer.
EDIT: Found the study [2]. It’s for 2012 to 2015. Given these are decade-old data, I’m actually surprised the gap is only 2x while fatality and injury rates were already lower.
[1] https://www.natlawreview.com/article/dangers-driverless-cars
[2] http://websites.umich.edu/~umtriswt/PDF/UMTRI-2015-34.pdf
National Law Review (look it up or see associated link below).
>>> Human drivers tailgate. If you have a safe cushion in front of you, an erratic stop won’t cause a rear-end collision. <<<
That's the theory --- and the misinterpretation.
It's true that almost all human driver's tailgate at some point --- but they do so while being involved in half the accidents that self driving cars are --- 4.1 accidents per million miles versus 9.1 for driverless.
https://carsurance.net/insights/self-driving-car-statistics/