The car did not get a ticket.

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Per mile driven, all of these autonomous systems are statistically better than humans at driving.

    It’s mostly because humans are dogshit at driving, but you are a lot safer using these systems than not, despite media reporting.

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      4 months ago

      That’s only because they don’t drive that fast, and they just dump most problems to a human driver. If a self-driving car stopped in the middle of an intersection and a human driver hit it, the blame would legally fall on the human despite the fact that the self-driving car caused the issue.

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        4 months ago

        Liability of an accident doesn’t factor into those statistics. They include all accidents regardless of blame.

        And you act like that exact scenario hasn’t happened with human drivers. In Arizona alone, 3.5 people die every day in traffic incidents. Given the number of dumb fuck road ragers brake checking other drivers on the road, stopping in the middle of an intersection and getting hit probably happens at least once a day, probably more.

        Yet even with all those fatalities, and other accidents in general, the autonomous systems still have fewer incidents per mile driven.

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      4 months ago

      That’s an apples to oranges comparison. Self driving cars aren’t driving on the same roads and in the same conditions. Maybe they’re better, but that hasn’t really been tested/evaluated.

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      4 months ago

      Sir, your whole family died in a waymo accident.

      First of all, statistically, the chance was bigger that they didn’t die. And now leave the billionaires alone.