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by zamnos 1115 days ago
just to nitpick, but with airline travel about five or six nines (99.9999%) safe, that is, one fatality every million miles of travel or so, 95% vs 99% is nowhere near good enough.

https://www.flightglobal.com/airlines/how-safe-were-commerci...

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One million flights not one million miles of travel. There'd be a lot of dead frequent fliers if it was a death per million miles.
Yes it will be likely needing a 99.99%+ accuracy. I just made a vague suggestion, as I didn't have time to look it up. Elon mentioned it too, it doesn't just need to better than a human, but massively better. I don't know the exact accident stats for human drivers. But self-driving cars will need to be much higher.