[mlyle]

> Revoke their drivers license. Impound the vehicles.

> Im not against driverless cars, but I am against unbalanced treatment of road users, legal persons and natural alike.

OK, well, ... surely we need to have some kind of not-exactly-equal treatment. If I commit 4 traffic offenses in a year, I'll get a suspended license. If Google commits 4 traffic offenses in a year across, say, 5,000 cars and 50,000 vehicle hours, they probably should not have operations suspended.

[WrtCdEvrydy]

Why not? It's the same code across all the cars... it's as if you had a clone factory making clones of driver you.

[mlyle]

I kind of hope you're joking, but just in case you're not I'll explain.

Because if I make a mistake every 3000 hours of driving, that's a mistake every 5-10 years. I am allowed to continue driving by the law.

If Waymo makes a mistake every 6000 hours of driving, and drives 50,000 hours per year, that's 8 per year. Said system would be twice as safe as me but would pretty much immediately get suspended if it's treated as "one driver."

[minwcnt5]

Under this logic, twins would share the same drivers license. :)

[supermatt]

Why? Full-time professional drivers are subject to the same rules as casual drivers. They should program them not to perform traffic offenses.

[mlyle]

Because perfection probably isn't attainable. Exceeding human performance by a large margin should be good enough. There is no reason to compare a fleet driving 500,000 hours (or much more) in a year to one person driving 300 hours in a year.

A single professional driver cannot drive hundreds of thousands of hours in a year.