[adrians1]

This is what people don't appreciate when quoting those statistics about how self-driving cars are safer than humans: when a human driver causes an accident, it was because that particular person did something wrong. When a self-driving car handles a situation wrongly that's a big issue, because all the self-driving cars run the same software.

[83]

On the other hand when a human driver causes an accident one driver learns a lesson (maybe). When a self driving car causes an accident all cars get to learn from it.

[skybrian]

Yes, but when the bug was fixed, it was fixed everywhere.

[skygazer]

That phrasing makes it easy to underestimate the astronomical dimensions of edgecase-space, and what necessarily remains unexplored after such a fix.

[bsaul]

how do we know for sure that it was fixed ? What are the conditions that are fixed ?

[what_ever]

Since the comment thread is comparing humans, how do you know the human has fixed their bug?

[bsaul]

Humans don't have bugs. they may have disease, or mental troubles, but we're pretty good at assessing them. Thanks in part to their ability to communicate.

[RunningDroid]

I'd argue that humans don't have bugs but their mental models of things do, mostly as a consequence of the fact a model's complexity increases with it's accuracy.