In a certain way it’s really quite simple. With person-controlled driving you
have a certain number of accidents of various levels of seriousness. With
driverless driving you will also have a certain number. To justify driverless
you have to have fewer (you could say no worse than the same number but I don’t
think people would accept that). In fact, Elon Musk says that his cars will
only be allowed to go proper autopilot when they have 10 times fewer accidents
– when he says “have” I guess he means according to the data collected on their
autopilot features (when not operated as true autopilot) both from the cars and
drivers themselves – perhaps this data is not exactly the same as “for real”
data but if they’re only going to go “live” when they think that driverless is
at the 10-times-better level then surely it will be at least significantly
better if not 10 times better.
http://mashable.com/2016/07/21/elon-musk-future-cars/#HNbVG8m0y5qm
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart Burnfield
Sent: Monday, 25 July 2016 3:03 PM
To: Austechwriter
Subject: atw: Driverless cars (Was: OT I hate it when I am this right)
This broadcast on the ABC RN Ockham's Razor programme was obviously inspired by
Christine's post and our recent discussion on ATW:
Pondering the prospects of driverless cars
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/pondering-the-prospects-and-pitfalls-of-driverless-cars/7553938
It doesn't provide any easy answers but asks some interesting questions.
--- Stuart
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