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Originally Posted by unluky
Meanwhile.........975 other MAN DRIVEN car wrecks happened within 100 miles of this event, but no no-one cares because it was not about some idiot that got out of the drivers seat in a car not equipped with "Full Self Driving" capabilities.
So if self driving cars (in the future - because they are NOT self driving cars now) kill 1/2 as many people as human driven cars - is it still "not ready" because a single person dies?
How many is acceptable? 50,000 die each year now with us idiots behind the wheel - so wouldn't 20,000 be better? Nothing is perfect.
I just wonder how many we as humans will be willing to accept as "normal" when the car is driving.
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We are never going to see significant reduction in traffic fatalities as the result of implementing autonomous driving under the current driving environment of today. That means the same number of total miles driven per year nationally, on the same roads, same volume of vehicles, and the same trips taken at the same average speed.
The only way autonomous vehicles will reduce human fatalities is from a complete redesign of the ground traffic system. That redesign is will only come at a seriously huge expense and drastic societal implications related to personal mobility. Most reductions of fatalities will be from humans not in the vehicles, where commerce comes to the human rather than the human driving to the commerce.