I gotta say, I think they will become (very) safe.
Very soon. However they still need to work out the minor fudge factors, like the car a couple months ago which actually hit and killed a pedestrian who was walking beside a bicycle, crossing the road.
Not good that. But they are about to become (very) safe. Very soon, I think.
I completely agree. And regarding the incident with the bicycle walker, I’m reminded of a revelation that was shared with me a year or so ago about this whole concept: self-driving cars don’t have to be perfectly safe. They only have to be at least as safe as human drivers. Human drivers make millions of mistakes, many of them deadly, every single day.
“However they still need to work out the minor fudge factors, like the car a couple months ago which actually hit and killed a pedestrian who was walking beside a bicycle, crossing the road.”
uh, yeah. killing people is definitely a “minor glitch” ...