Comment rating the AI (Score 2) 41
As always, the issue isn't "When is the AI pefect?", it's not even "When is the AI good enough?", if you consider that typical humans are not "good enough" either. Safety, collision rates, death tolls, etc. for human drivers might go down as technology improves over the decades (ABS, crumple zones, power steering, etc.), but I doubt humans themselves have improved noticeably over the years. Hell we might even be worse than some peak point in the past because now we over-rely on the vehicle itself...
The point is that eventually, on a per km basis, is AI *better* than a typical human? If so, time to stop driving and be driven instead.
AI will still cause some mind-bogglingly dumb accidents that get all the Luddite hand-wringing headlines. But a human running a schoolbus stop sign and mowing down a couple kids somehow doesn't get anyone to say "If only AI had been in charge, this wouldn't have happened".
It's simply a numbers game as to when that threshold has been crossed and then we should all stop driving. Anyone have any idea where we are on that timeline?
The point is that eventually, on a per km basis, is AI *better* than a typical human? If so, time to stop driving and be driven instead.
AI will still cause some mind-bogglingly dumb accidents that get all the Luddite hand-wringing headlines. But a human running a schoolbus stop sign and mowing down a couple kids somehow doesn't get anyone to say "If only AI had been in charge, this wouldn't have happened".
It's simply a numbers game as to when that threshold has been crossed and then we should all stop driving. Anyone have any idea where we are on that timeline?