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> with no issues

Demanding a probability of zero can make anything impossible. And you're not even asking for zero fatalities, you're asking for zero "issues", whatever those may be. That is a wildly unrealistic demand. Human drivers are not that reliable either, especially in bad whether conditions.

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Yeah, the real ask must be fewer issues, not zero. The cause for concern is that self driving cars increase the chances of systemic failure.

I'm not asking for zero, but just saying that scale matters more than most think. Even something like 99% success rate, a video of a single drive would look great, but at scale, it would absolutely fail. 1% is a huge failure rate considering millions of drives happen every single day. That's 10000 failure per day on 1 million drives.

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