[fmpwizard]

> see self driving cars run into solid and stationary objects, but human drivers do that all the time too.

Human drivers who are distracted do that all the time, AP is supposed to avoid that, it is supposed to be alert all the time, but when it sees a stationary object, the result of their algo is, "it must be a sign we can somehow go through"

We need to make it very clear that self driving cars are better than driving drunk, or when you haven't slept in 24+ hours, but if you are a driver who pays attention, don't use this tech.

And it is not that I don't want the tech to take over the world, I wish I could just put my kids in a self driving car and have the car take them to the school that is 4 miles from home, but we are nowhere close to that, even with me in the driver seat, if I only have seconds to take over before I end up on a ditch or worse.

[nradov]

There are currently no self driving cars which a drunk or exhausted person could operate with an acceptable level of safety.

[cameldrv]

It’s far from clear in the statistics that self driving cars today (without the use of a safety driver) are safer than driving drunk. IMO Tesla autopilot, fairly clearly is less safe than driving drunk if a human is not carefully monitoring.