[exelius]

And it's still hard to argue with the fact that out of several million miles driven, this is the first serious accident that was caused by the autonomous car (and the failure scenario looks to have been appreciably complex). You won't find a human with that clean of a record.

[hga]

You won't find a human with that clean of a record.

Some number of us humans are better than that. In addition to my father who's in his early '80s who's lived almost all his life in Missouri, where driving instead of flying to other places is generally ideal, try this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=truck+driver+million+mile+cl...

[bradtemp]

Humans only drive about 500K miles in a lifetime, though there are those who drive much more. 2 million miles would be a challenge in any human lifetime, but there would be some professional drivers which attain that.

[mathattack]

I'm very bearish on the future of human drivers. Human drivers sleep and wheel and drink and drive much more frequently than computers crash. But the computers will have glitches in edge cases that humans are better equipped to serve. It's part of the trade-off. It we can cut even half of the 30,000+ auto fatalities a year, it's worth it.