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by sea2summit 3944 days ago
Step 1. Release autonomous cars to market with lower incidence rate than humans.

Step 2. Sit back and watch humans cause accidents; insurance for human drivers goes thru the roof.

Step 3. ???

Step 4. Skynet.

1 comments

Serious question.

Is computer vision so advanced that it is already so obvious that self-driving cars will definitely be safer?

Yes it's a computer which is more reliable at always outputting the same answer than a human but it's not a simple application this one.

As far as I know most robots get confused at times just as humans do.

I think eventually they will be, because they can learn and share their knowledge and keep learning about all the real world exceptions without limitation unlike humans.

But right now or when they are deployed en mass. I'm not sure they will DEFINITELY without exception be safer.

And I know there exists statistics about accident rates per kilometre driven but aren't those only a few cars driving previously selected and well documented routes?