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catigula | 19 days ago

To be fair, humans are fairly poor drivers and generally can't be trusted to drive millions of miles safely.

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gf000|18 days ago

Humans are not good drivers when it comes to long, monotonous rides (because we get tired)

But (some) humans have the ability to handle difficult situations, and no autonomous system gets anywhere close to that. So this is more of a "robots handle the easy 80% better, but fail hard on the rest of the 20%". Humans have a possibly worse 80% performance, but shine in the 20%.

nradov|18 days ago

Actually humans are fairly good drivers. The average US driver goes almost 2 million miles between causing injury collisions. Take the drunks and drug users out and the numbers for humans look even better.

catigula|18 days ago

Incorrect. Humans are fairly good engineers, so cars are pretty safe nowadays.

If you include minor fender-benders and unreported incidents, estimates drop to around 100,000–200,000 miles between any collision event.

This is cataclysmically bad for a designed system, which is why targets are super-human, not human.

FarmerPotato|18 days ago

I don't think averages work that way