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by toomuchtodo 1792 days ago
I still like those odds! As the saying goes, “I’d rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona.” I’ll take my chances in a Tesla over a legacy automaker.
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More power to you but how do you feel about endangering others around you?
I believe the risk is reasonable compared to your average human being. Software doesn’t get tired or distracted, and I would not use Tesla self driving features if it would put others at an unreasonable level of risk.
>> Software doesn’t get tired or distracted

It just has a lot of corner cases, untested even. This blind trust in SW and by extension, technology, is really exasperating.

Really curious, how would you quantify the reasonabl risk ? Should the risk be based on number of fatalities or on the number of potential fatalities that were averted ?

The data that you point to is about fatal crashes that made the news. What about all the cases that the SW malfunctioned and had a potential to be fatal ? Only tesla has that data or perhaps even they may not.