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by rurp 1100 days ago
> There are a quarter million vehicle crashes in the DataSF Fire Department Calls For Service. Self-driving cars will prevent these.

That's a bold claim. Do you have evidence to support it? I'm not talking about results from controlled or ideal driving conditions, I mean evidence showing that self driving will definitely be better at the conditions those quarter million accidents occur in.

Perhaps there's some research I'm unaware of but as far as I know the best we can say is that self driving might end up being safer for general usecase driving, but that there are wide disagreements about how likely that chance is.