• Perspectivist@feddit.uk
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    15 hours ago

    Broadly speaking, an AI driver getting stumped means it’s stuck in the middle of the road - while a human driver getting stumped means plowing into a semi truck.

    I’d rather be inconvenienced than killed. And from what I’ve seen, even our current AI drivers are already statistically safer than the average human driver - and they’re only going to keep getting better.

    They’ll never be flawless though. Nothing is.

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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      14 hours ago

      Ai drivers have run over and crushed people slowly before too though because they didn’t see the person as an “obstacle” to be avoided, or because they were on the ground, it didn’t see them

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        14 hours ago

        And they always will. You need to look at the big picture here, not individual cases. If we replaced every single car on US roads with one driven by AI - proven to be 10 times better a driver than a human - that would still mean 4,000 people getting killed by them each year. That, however, doesn’t mean we should go back to human drivers and 40,000 people killed annually.

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          14 hours ago

          You need to look at the big picture here, not individual cases.

          By that logic…

          We should really be investing in trains and buses, not cars of any type.

    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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      14 hours ago

      current AI drivers are already statistically safer than

      As long as they use level 3 autonomous cars and then cheat with remote operators instead of using real level 5 cars, such statistics remain quite meaningless.

      However, they tell about the people who use them as arguments.

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        11 hours ago

        As the OP stated, the low velocity cases are not causing deadly accidents. And you can’t drive by wire at high speed (too much latency). So I doubt it’s affecting the stats in any meaningful way.

        Honestly I much prefer they have a human as a backup than not.