Futurologist@futurology.today to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 8 months agoSwiss Re, one of the world's largest insurance companies, says Waymo's self-driving cars are already safer than human driven cars.www.swissre.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down13
arrow-up134arrow-down1external-linkSwiss Re, one of the world's largest insurance companies, says Waymo's self-driving cars are already safer than human driven cars.www.swissre.comFuturologist@futurology.today to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareLandmammals@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·8 months agoSelf driving doesn’t have to be perfect to be safer than humans driving.
minus-squareUlvain@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoNo, but even if the number of deaths are significantly lower, the deaths that do occur can’t be of a type a human would have absolutely avoided (ex: mistaking a truck for a sun glare, as happened with a Tesla IIRC), if we want wide adoption…
Self driving doesn’t have to be perfect to be safer than humans driving.
No, but even if the number of deaths are significantly lower, the deaths that do occur can’t be of a type a human would have absolutely avoided (ex: mistaking a truck for a sun glare, as happened with a Tesla IIRC), if we want wide adoption…