I agree with what you said, BUT
From my perspective as a person who lives in San Francisco and also bikes a LOT: human driver also do not perform acceptably.
I counted 14 cars without headlights on after sunset on a 2 mile bike ride yesterday.
I counted 5 cars parked in either a bike lane or active traffic.
2 cars took blind rights (no stops) onto Polk from various alleyways.
This was a good day, FWIW.
Cruises have obvious problems, but my hope is we don't use humans as a baseline, because they're not very good either.
EDIT:
This comment is pretty controversial for whatever reason, but said differently - why would we allow autonomous cars to kill 30k Americans every year (the same allowance we give human drivers)?
That seems like a comically bad baseline.
From my perspective as a person who lives in San Francisco and also bikes a LOT: human driver also do not perform acceptably.
I counted 14 cars without headlights on after sunset on a 2 mile bike ride yesterday.
I counted 5 cars parked in either a bike lane or active traffic.
2 cars took blind rights (no stops) onto Polk from various alleyways.
This was a good day, FWIW.
Cruises have obvious problems, but my hope is we don't use humans as a baseline, because they're not very good either.
EDIT: This comment is pretty controversial for whatever reason, but said differently - why would we allow autonomous cars to kill 30k Americans every year (the same allowance we give human drivers)?
That seems like a comically bad baseline.