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Safer than average is totally defensible, because every year the margin of what is "average" changes. I'm just pulling numbers out of my ass here, but if say,
by piloto_ciego 9d ago
Safer than average is totally defensible, because every year the margin of what is "average" changes.
I'm just pulling numbers out of my ass here, but if say, one person is killed by an automobile every 100m miles, if the next year the average is 0.999 per 100m miles, that's a good thing provided the trend continues. We should not step over a dime to pick up a penny.
- milch 8d agoI do think there's a point where introducing different failure modes is harmful. Say they end up causing more pedestrian crashes and more head-on & angle crashes (such as the one in this article), but less loss-of-control and fixed-object crashes. That would make it safer for occupants but less safe for non-occupants of the self-driving vehicle. Since the occupant is the ones engaging self-driving mode they should be the one carrying the risk, so IMO even if it reduces number of deaths overall it should not be allowed