they avoid high accident areas. that alone skews the data.

i have always lived places where it snows for half the year. nothing here yet.

they are also avoiding high accident areas

the only questions that matter are: if they were only getting rid of "waste" then why did anything change at all for these people? do they think of these people as the waste? or was it not waste at all but just something that they didn't want to fund any more? when they did the study and discovered how many people would die from their actions, did they do anything to stop it? ignorance is not an excuse for the leader of any nation.

Wow. where i live (in canada) the ambulances must make it in 10 minutes most of the time.

it just occurred to me that people are reporting that these cars take wierd routes. id be willing to bet they are avoiding high collision areas and that's why.

Sure, but make sure you are comparing like for like. A machine can pay better attention, but humans have a meraculous gift that they have two lenses on a fully swivelling mount. When this mount swivels, there is a processing device that can assemble the entire scene into one moving sequence. The human is always looking around the car. they can understand that there may be children around a playground. they can see a cat running under the vehicle. this is why they can pull over safely while a self driving car cannot. a car is just analyzing frame by frame going by only shapes for context. it's just not the same.

The difference is, we can fix that problem and know from the physical world how much we have reduced the risk. not only are electrical devices safer but the buildings are safer. no one really knows if self driving cars are "fixed" since clearly they don't have a way to test for everything.

a lot of this seems dependent on cities feeding the information rather than the cars polling the information. but that's just not sustainable because that costs taxpayers money.

THIS. how can scanning all cities be scalable? are they going to keep up to every construction site everywhere? how much are they having to be fed updates by cities, which is costing taxpayers money?

and it is saying that based on the same data points

Why don't you just become a better driver rather than projecting it onto everyone else?

and yet with all those sensors, they still can't pull over safely like a human and can navigate far fewer places than a human.

In my opinion people shouldn't be so afraid of body odor.

COVID kills more people in the US. Let's not get on the topic of mass shootings that are basically allowed to happen. Christ, talk about not being able to see the forest.