The average driver drives like 13,500 miles a year [1].
The average driver files a claim for collision once every 17.9 years [2].
That makes human drivers 16 times safer than Uber self-driving cars. This is concerning for people who think self-driving cars are right around the corner! Improved algorithms would need to avoid 94% of the collisions that self-driving cars currently get into in order to have the same failure rate as humans.
The average driver files a claim for collision once every 17.9 years [2].
That makes human drivers 16 times safer than Uber self-driving cars. This is concerning for people who think self-driving cars are right around the corner! Improved algorithms would need to avoid 94% of the collisions that self-driving cars currently get into in order to have the same failure rate as humans.
[1] https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2011/07/27/how-man...