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by jfoster 364 days ago
Waymo has had many such incidents like this, but they're still (correctly) considered much safer than human drivers.

Whilst a wheel wobble & veering somewhere it's not supposed to go looks bad, it's very difficult to do worse than the average human driver in terms of safety.
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AlotOfReading 364 days ago
It's actually the opposite. Humans, for all their faults, are amazingly safe drivers. Depending on exactly how you choose to measure things, we achieve anywhere from 5-8 9s of reliability or more.

It's statistically unlikely that we'd see an issue like this on the first day of a limited deployment if FSD was hitting those numbers.

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jfoster 364 days ago
That's true. As part of this deployment they haven't driven enough miles to prove safety, but from their FSD data overall they should have a pretty good understanding of where they stand.
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ahahahahah 363 days ago
> from their FSD data overall they should have a pretty good understanding of where they stand

They know where they stand when there is a safety driver behind the wheel. I'd expect if that data were really good, they'd be less secretive about it. But still, it says very little about where they stand without that driver.

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quantified 363 days ago
How many accidents have you been in?
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jfoster 363 days ago
Including being not the driver? Four.

How is it relevant though?

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