But we have a long way to go before 1 fatality per 1 billion miles would be a bad thing. That would be an order of magnitude improvement. I think we can get two orders of magnitude in 10 years.
Autonomy absolutely will have a body count. It cannot save every single driver. And so if we want to be able to enjoy the benefits of autonomy that saves almost every single driver, we better get comfortable with the notion that some people will die in self driving cars.
If we can’t accept that the technology will never be perfect we will just keep dooming 30,000 people (in the US alone) to die each year, not to mention countless maimings (2 million actually) and property damage.
But we have a long way to go before 1 fatality per 1 billion miles would be a bad thing. That would be an order of magnitude improvement. I think we can get two orders of magnitude in 10 years.
Autonomy absolutely will have a body count. It cannot save every single driver. And so if we want to be able to enjoy the benefits of autonomy that saves almost every single driver, we better get comfortable with the notion that some people will die in self driving cars.
If we can’t accept that the technology will never be perfect we will just keep dooming 30,000 people (in the US alone) to die each year, not to mention countless maimings (2 million actually) and property damage.