[ExI] Are Self-driving cars good enough now?

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Thu Feb 29 17:08:21 UTC 2024


We Are All Bad Drivers
Anyone rooting against self-driving cars is cheering for tens of
thousands of deaths, year after year. We shouldn’t be burning
self-driving cars in the streets. We should be celebrating…
By Eric Newcomer     February 28, 2024

<https://www.thefp.com/p/we-are-all-bad-drivers>
Quote:
There was a time when I believed that self-driving cars should be held
to the standard of airplanes. Every mistake needed to be rigorously
understood and any human death was unforgivable. But my view has
evolved over time as human drivers have continued to kill tens of
thousands of people a year. We need a solution that’s meaningfully
better than human drivers, yes, but we shouldn’t wait for perfection
before we start getting dangerous human drivers off the streets.
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Sounds good to me!

BillK



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