This seems to warrant repeating every time this is brought up:
It just needs to be 1% better than human drivers. If the net result is 1% less tragedies - sign me up. If it's better than the alternative, I'm in.
It just needs to be 1% better than human drivers. If the net result is 1% less tragedies - sign me up. If it's better than the alternative, I'm in.
All that considered, I need autonomous vehicles to be MUCH better than average human drivers to consider riding in them. They need to be better than I think I am, so maybe top 5% or so of talent on the road.
1% better than the average human is still an awful driver IMO.
Say you have a child and want to send him to school, would you chose
1 drive him yourself, knowing you have 10 years of experience with zero accidents and you are responsible and care for your child
2 use a lottery that will give you a random driver, could be a 16 years old teen with 1 day experience, could be a 80 years old elder or a drunk or tired dude or a super driver
3 use an AI , is better then the drunk dude , 1% better then the teen but worse then you and much worse then a professional driver
I am curious why would chose 2 or 3 if 1 is an option. 3
- Not everyone has access to school bus options
- not everyone can drive
- not everyone owns a self driving car
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I would prefer if we stay on topic and answer at in Hypothetical question.
Or if you have a bias, let use a different domain
Your child is ill and you call for a doctor, but in this universe doctors are a lot of time drunk or are allowed to practice with zero experience, whyat do you chose
1 you call your family doctor that you trust and is not a drunk
2 you call the AI doctor that is terrible compared to a normal doctor but is better then the drunk doctors
3 you realize that it would be so much cheaper then creating an army of AI robot doctors to just fix the problem with drunk doctors, and maybe the fact you are an AI enthusiast won't prevent you think that comparing an AI with a drunk doctor is stupid, that we should have better stats then is better then the worse.
I am attempting to show that 1% better then a terrible calculated average is bad, it could be great for someone that is a bad driver. My problem is that averages are dragged down but drunk driving or speeding, I am fine if we implement in parallel multiple solutions, like use tech/AI to prevent illegal driving (drunk, tired, texting) and in the same tiem continue the research on actual good AI drivers that are actual good at driving.
Opinions my own.