Okay, 37,461 out of 263.6 million cars. That is one death per 7,037 cars. And driverless cars? There are 53 cities doing some level of testing. Say there are even 10x cars in each, that is 530 cars, that is 1 death per 530 cars. And I bet there are only a fraction of that number of driverless cars around. Tell me again which is safer?
Yeah, but you can’t stop 263.6 million cars when one driver has a flaw, while you figure out how to prevent that flaw from occurring again. You can with the driverless cars, and they will get better and safer until they far surpass people.
Probably should be on a per mile driven basis, but Moore’s law means it will halved in roughly every 1-2 years, and human driver’s won’t have similar drops. The replacement of human drivers will be in stages, like more automatic features such as emergency collision breaking already found in cars. Young humans are so addicted and instant gratfication they text and drive. And they can be the worst drivers in our history...good luck insuring them.
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