Can we please not overreact and send the whole self-driving research down the drain?
What does the statistics say? How many miles have the self-driving cars driven, and how many deaths were they responsible for? How does it compare to a human driver?
When a million humans drive a car for a mile, and 1 of them results in a death, it's easy to pinpoint the blame on a "random drunk/distracted driver".
How'bout start thinking of the self-driving software as a
combination of all human drivers, with just a much smaller odds of having a drunk/sun-blinded/distracted driver than an average human driver.
What does the statistics say? How many miles have the self-driving cars driven, and how many deaths were they responsible for? How does it compare to a human driver?
When a million humans drive a car for a mile, and 1 of them results in a death, it's easy to pinpoint the blame on a "random drunk/distracted driver". How'bout start thinking of the self-driving software as a combination of all human drivers, with just a much smaller odds of having a drunk/sun-blinded/distracted driver than an average human driver.