Better drivers than the average human driver. Take male drivers out of the equation and it tips. Women drivers may be less secure at times (compared to male overconfidence) but they are far less likely to be reckless or cause lethal accidents.
A computer can’t get intoxicated, tired, or distracted. Humans can’t monitor dozens of sensors millions of times a second.
There are definitely still steps that need to be made to advance the technology, but it already has us beat. And it’s great. Traffic related deaths are a huge issue.
Human drivers: people die due to reckless driving and human mistakes - and in most situations a good driver can anticipate a lot of dangers and avoid them.
ML “assistants” getting control over cars: people die of unpredictable mis-assessments of inputs vs. outputs, and there’s no way to anticipate any danger or try to avoid it.
People who advocate for non-deterministic systems taking control in cars are irresponsible and have blood on their hands.
Your description of a human driver is no different than a self driving vehicle.
An input/output error is the equivalent to a human mistake. And those happen far less often than a human mistake. People make unpredictable stupid mistakes driving all the time.
If you think people make unpredictable mistakes all the time, you shouldn’t be driving a motorized vehicle. Because you clearly do not know what to anticipate.
Do unpredictable mistakes happen? Sure thing. But they are the rare exception, and almost all the time an aware driver will be cautious about situations so as not to get caught unaware.
Better drivers than the average human driver. Take male drivers out of the equation and it tips. Women drivers may be less secure at times (compared to male overconfidence) but they are far less likely to be reckless or cause lethal accidents.
Signed: a male :p
No, it still doesn’t tip.
A computer can’t get intoxicated, tired, or distracted. Humans can’t monitor dozens of sensors millions of times a second.
There are definitely still steps that need to be made to advance the technology, but it already has us beat. And it’s great. Traffic related deaths are a huge issue.
What’s not great is who owns the cars.
Human drivers: people die due to reckless driving and human mistakes - and in most situations a good driver can anticipate a lot of dangers and avoid them. ML “assistants” getting control over cars: people die of unpredictable mis-assessments of inputs vs. outputs, and there’s no way to anticipate any danger or try to avoid it.
People who advocate for non-deterministic systems taking control in cars are irresponsible and have blood on their hands.
Your description of a human driver is no different than a self driving vehicle.
An input/output error is the equivalent to a human mistake. And those happen far less often than a human mistake. People make unpredictable stupid mistakes driving all the time.
If you think people make unpredictable mistakes all the time, you shouldn’t be driving a motorized vehicle. Because you clearly do not know what to anticipate. Do unpredictable mistakes happen? Sure thing. But they are the rare exception, and almost all the time an aware driver will be cautious about situations so as not to get caught unaware.