It's fairly easy to measure, fatalities per million km driven. My understanding is that the industry aims to achieve 10x lower fatality rate before releasing self driving cars.
That way of measuring is terrible, any student then can put his own system on streets, kill 100 people, then after 1 million km some agency decide he needs to try again next year.
We need a better measurement that would not involve killing people, at least as a lower bar before accepting this cars for testing.
We need a better measurement that would not involve killing people, at least as a lower bar before accepting this cars for testing.