[radq]

As someone that rides a bicycle around human-driven vehicles, I will take my chances with autonomous cars. The autonomous car isn't going to drive drunk, use a phone, or drive erratically because the driver is feeling frustrated.

[anonymouskimmer]

Are they training autonomous cars on how to handle equipment malfunction?

[sour-taste]

First of all, probably. These cars have far more sensors and far more monitoring than standard cars so they know when things go wrong quickly and can react quickly (by like pulling over). At the current scale of self driving cars actually being tested right now it's basically guaranteed that a tire has blown by now. Given we haven't heard about it killing someone it probably means that the software knows how to handle it.

Second, human error accounted for >90% of accidents [1]. Focusing on that fraction first makes sense.

1] https://www.cbmclaw.com/what-percentage-of-car-accidents-are...

[anonymouskimmer]

I'm just wondering what happens as these cars get older. Right now they are all young, and presumably regularly and well maintained. I presume they'll be engineered to the same standards as conventional vehicles, which means chronic issues popping up.