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This is what people don't appreciate when quoting those statistics about how self-driving cars are safer than humans: when a human driver causes an accident, it
by adrians1 3y ago
This is what people don't appreciate when quoting those statistics about how self-driving cars are safer than humans: when a human driver causes an accident, it was because that particular person did something wrong. When a self-driving car handles a situation wrongly that's a big issue, because all the self-driving cars run the same software.
- skybrian 3y agoYes, but when the bug was fixed, it was fixed everywhere.
- skygazer 3y agoThat phrasing makes it easy to underestimate the astronomical dimensions of edgecase-space, and what necessarily remains unexplored after such a fix.
- bsaul 3y agohow do we know for sure that it was fixed ? What are the conditions that are fixed ?
- what_ever 3y agoSince the comment thread is comparing humans, how do you know the human has fixed their bug?
- bsaul 3y agoHumans don't have bugs. they may have disease, or mental troubles, but we're pretty good at assessing them. Thanks in part to their ability to communicate.
- RunningDroid 3y agoI'd argue that humans don't have bugs but their mental models of things do, mostly as a consequence of the fact a model's complexity increases with it's accuracy.
- 83 3y agoOn the other hand when a human driver causes an accident one driver learns a lesson (maybe). When a self driving car causes an accident all cars get to learn from it.