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kleinbl00  ·  1743 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: “I was just shaking”—new documents reveal details of fatal Tesla crash

There's like 370,000 Teslas on the road. There have been six self-driving fatalities. Compare and contrast: There were 350 737MAX in the sky and two of them crashed. Tesla is a thousand times safer than Boeing!

We're bad at assessing the risk of systems we don't understand. It's in Elon's best interest to make that risk acceptable to you and in his worst interest to accept your irrational, fear-based assessment of the situation because if he's gotta make a car that chooses correctly 99.99999% of the time instead of 99% of the time he's gonna spend between now and forever chasing asymptotes and OBVIOUSLY that's bad for progress, bad for humanity, bad for traffic, bad for shareholders, bad for Grimes, bad for space exploration etc etc etc.

Autonomous cars have a different understanding of the road than we do. When you consider traffic to be a system of independent vehicles sharing a basis of understanding, the parameter mismatch becomes obvious.