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kleinbl00 · 2443 days ago · link · · parent · post: How a self-driving car killed a pedestrian in Arizona

I mean, their ratio's still way better than humans

Utterly, completely and irredeemably false.

One critical intervention per 200 miles means Uber's software is about to crash the car pretty much every time they fill up the tank.

After all, they don't have to be perfect (indeed, perfect is fundamentally unachievable), they just have to be better than us.

And a bicyclist walking her bike across the road at 10pm has a pretty good idea what she can get away with.

“One of the things that we have noticed about accidents involving self-driving cars is that they seem strange from a human perspective; for example, the vehicles do not hit the brakes prior to the collision, which is something most human drivers do,” says Bart Selman, a computer science professor at Cornell University and director of the Intelligent Information Systems Institute. “That’s because the vehicles make decisions based on what their sensors detect. If its sensors don’t detect anything, the vehicle won’t react at all.”

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