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.... and once that problem starts injuring as many people as driverless cars, then we might start looking at it as a public policy issue.



> The companies point out that, in a city that sees dozens of traffic deaths caused by human-driven cars each year, their driverless taxis have never killed or seriously injured anyone in the millions of miles they’ve traveled.

So, by your logic, the public policy we should be looking at is reducing human diven car miles to a minimum.

If you ignore the rate at which the events are occuring and don't bother to collect any data on the relative rates of other things like standard taxis and delivery vehicles, then your "data" is worthless from a public policy perspective.




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