>The reality though is how many pedestrians are hit by manual driver's vs automous drivers? On a percentage basis I gotta believe autonomous cars are orders of magnitude safer.
That might be a fair question, except that one death at this early stage of limited realistic trials makes me doubt the correctness of your belief. On the statistics that we have right now, I'm not seeing how autonomous cars are safer.
>Self driving cars aren't going to be perfect.
Shouldn't self-driving cars be held to a better standard rather than compared generously to objectively terrible existing standards? That we think of pedestrians regularly killed in "accidents" as acceptable collateral is already pretty horrific.
That might be a fair question, except that one death at this early stage of limited realistic trials makes me doubt the correctness of your belief. On the statistics that we have right now, I'm not seeing how autonomous cars are safer.
>Self driving cars aren't going to be perfect.
Shouldn't self-driving cars be held to a better standard rather than compared generously to objectively terrible existing standards? That we think of pedestrians regularly killed in "accidents" as acceptable collateral is already pretty horrific.