We make those choices all the time.

Taking a plane instead of driving is similar. You lose direct control, but it's orders of magnitude safer.

I'll take a 0.001% chance of death over a 0.1% chance every time.

Anytime you get on the road you are exposing yourself to the possibility that a suicidal or drunk or elderly person with dementia will kill you.

Personally, I would like to have very rigorous driving tests for old people and remove licenses for people with DUIs. The obvious question then is, how are old people and drunks supposed to get around. Self driving cars seem like an option eventually. It makes you safer compared to the alternative, which is we generally wait until someone is killed before we permanently remove someone's license.

I wonder how many people say this whose personal driving habits make them much higher risk than the baseline.

Don't forget - the error might be reproduce-able. As in, it will error rarely, but at that one obstacle, with that one light config, it will error repeatedly and constantly.

AI related car accidents and deaths will have special places and dates, were they will repeat annually.

You said car, not image classifier.

If errors in any subsystem surface out to the car, well then okay. But it's not unlikely that the overall system would deal with an error in the image classifier.

Pay wall so I can’t read the article. But can someone comment on what 0.001% error means in real world scenarios?

To keep the maths easy, that’s 18 wrong frames/10min. So roughly 2/3 of a second.

If these images are spread out, maybe it’s fine. If it’s failing on certain types of images, then those images could be grouped and 2/3rds of a second is more than enough time for a serious failure.

Only if you’re the only driver being replaced.

There's also the fact though, that if you're elderly you can't really avoid being a worse driver. I know particularly in rural areas where there's no public transportation, a lot of elderly people would accept an error rate higher than what their own driving used to be. It seems pretty tough for the rest of us to deny them access to a technology like that while it's in the interstitial stage.

Problem is, you are not alone on the road. And if somebody else does something really stupid, you can die as a consequence, without any chance to avoid it.

We are definitely not there yet, but I think of myself as a decent driver, and some assistant tools on high-end models are way better (just faster, probably) than me predicting stuff. For the first year this summer, I've driven a car that was quicker than I in an emergency break situation: while I started breaking, it depressed the pedal, and I was quite surprised, 'cause the car in front of me didn't begin breaking yet.