[rorykoehler]

Cars are already mostly software controlled drive by wire systems. Self driving cars will also be easily safer than meat bucket controlled ones. You should try roding a bicycle regularly. It's scary how bad people are at driving. Most shouldn't be on the road. It's like they think what they learned to pass their test isn't relevant one you have your license.

[uluyol]

How are cars drive by wire? Sure, newer cars have electric power steering, but I would guess that 99% of cars older than 10 years use hydraulic power steering and brakes.

Even then, it takes very little software to do electric power steering, so I'm not sure how you would consider this at all comparable to autonomous driving.

[darpa_escapee]

> Self driving cars will also be easily safer than meat bucket controlled ones.

This is a pretty generous assumption you're granting here.

[gbear605]

We’re already granting the assumption that these self driving cars are generally popular. For that to be the case, they’ll have to be safer than humans or people won’t be okay with letting them on the roads in large numbers.

[darpa_escapee]

That's another mighty assumption. The new shiny doesn't have to be better or safer for it to be popular.

[rorykoehler]

Human drivers are atrocious. It won't be hard to be better than them.

[darpa_escapee]

> It won't be hard to be better than them.

That's another very generous assumption wrapped in a truism.

I'd say it's one of the more difficult problems problems in the industry, given the billions of dollars poured into it.

[rorykoehler]

It only needs to be solved once