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by userbinator 3644 days ago
Yes, people will get careless with autonomous cars, but don't they do it with regular cars too ? Cellphone, coffee, makeup, etc. So I disagree that autonomous cars have to be perfect.

Yes they do, but trying to do something else while driving is additional cognitive load --- they still have to be paying some attention to driving, whereas "it just drives itself" automation allows a complete diversion of attention. In other words, the automation encourages carelessness.

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> automation encourages carelessness

Is that a hypothesis or are there statistics on accidents & fatalities to back it up. Curious, not denying what you say. I don't have statistics either.