If 1% fewer people died with self driving cars that would be 400 fewer deaths a year. That's absolutely a good change.
I agree that the _goal_ should be 10x or even 100x better than the best human drivers, but better than average would result in net good and it's hard for me to see an argument in which that's not true because it's less net suffering/death.
>If you want self-driving cars to be successful then you should be demanding from the carmakers to make these systems flawless.
We're still talking about tons of metal moving at very high speeds around other vehicles. That's just not possible. Should my self driving car handle a catastrophic tire failure at 90mph better than me? Absolutely. Is that still a situation that's likely to result in a crash regardless of the best inputs on a compromised system? Yes. There will _always_ be situations in which fatalities can occur with cars or any other kind of vehicle no matter how well they're engineered.
I agree that the _goal_ should be 10x or even 100x better than the best human drivers, but better than average would result in net good and it's hard for me to see an argument in which that's not true because it's less net suffering/death.
>If you want self-driving cars to be successful then you should be demanding from the carmakers to make these systems flawless.
We're still talking about tons of metal moving at very high speeds around other vehicles. That's just not possible. Should my self driving car handle a catastrophic tire failure at 90mph better than me? Absolutely. Is that still a situation that's likely to result in a crash regardless of the best inputs on a compromised system? Yes. There will _always_ be situations in which fatalities can occur with cars or any other kind of vehicle no matter how well they're engineered.