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Re:New Uber Funding Round Could Value the Company at $25B by krapp on Friday November 07, 2014 @10:13PM (#8575873)
How many of those accident-free miles were in uncontrolled conditions? How many of them were negotiating traffic in a rainstorm, or unplanned detours around construction, or getting boxed in by semis on the interstate, or dealing with people maybe or maybe not about to jump across from the median, or anything near the sort of calamitous and hard to manage situations typically leading to human accidents or fatality?

The Google car is brilliant but from what I understand "quite close" is stretching it.

Re:New Uber Funding Round Could Value the Company at $25B by qq66 on Friday November 07, 2014 @11:13PM (#8575977)
The Google car project is what, 5-10 years old? I assume that in 5-10 years it will be more capable than a human driver across the naturally encountered spectrum of driving conditions. That's "quite close" to me.