• awwwyissss@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yeah but when actual human drivers are the competition the bar isn’t that high

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      1 year ago

      My thought as well. “Running red lights and killing people” sounds scary until you realize that’s already what we’re living with.

      How do the rates compare when we look at AI vs human drivers? AI vs perfection isn’t as useful a metric.

      Fuck Elon and all his shit companies, but AI has a lot of potential, especially in things we suck at like driving.

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        1 year ago

        Make the companies who put self-driving in their vehicles liable for the vehicles insurance. This would work two fold as this ensures the ability to meet the financial payout in the case of an accident because they have the financial backing of the whole company instead of an individual, and it incentivises them to improve safety to minimise insurance claims and costs.

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      1 year ago

      While there are bad drivers that make terrible mistakes, I would hope they would brake for a child crossing the street if seen, rather than self driving that just didn’t register it and plows through.

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        1 year ago

        I’m sure a quick Google search will reveal a multitude of cases where that wasn’t the case. People kill kids with cars all the time, in fact the only greater danger to a child’s life in the US is being shot.

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          1 year ago

          I don’t doubt it. just saying i’d hope a person would notice, even with full assistant ans take action

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        1 year ago

        The problem is that they don’t see the kid crossing the road, just like a self driving car might not register it.

        99.99% of car accidents are real drivers, and most of the time it’s just lack of attention and/or not knowing the road rules/not following the road rules.

        A self driving car running a red light once is bad, but it’s hardly the end of the world or reason for people to want to shit down self driving cars. The driver of the car should have hit the brakes.