A computer can’t get intoxicated, tired, or distracted. Humans can’t monitor dozens of sensors millions of times a second.
There are definitely still steps that need to be made to advance the technology, but it already has us beat. And it’s great. Traffic related deaths are a huge issue.
Human drivers: people die due to reckless driving and human mistakes - and in most situations a good driver can anticipate a lot of dangers and avoid them.
ML “assistants” getting control over cars: people die of unpredictable mis-assessments of inputs vs. outputs, and there’s no way to anticipate any danger or try to avoid it.
People who advocate for non-deterministic systems taking control in cars are irresponsible and have blood on their hands.
Your description of a human driver is no different than a self driving vehicle.
An input/output error is the equivalent to a human mistake. And those happen far less often than a human mistake. People make unpredictable stupid mistakes driving all the time.
No, it still doesn’t tip.
A computer can’t get intoxicated, tired, or distracted. Humans can’t monitor dozens of sensors millions of times a second.
There are definitely still steps that need to be made to advance the technology, but it already has us beat. And it’s great. Traffic related deaths are a huge issue.
What’s not great is who owns the cars.
Human drivers: people die due to reckless driving and human mistakes - and in most situations a good driver can anticipate a lot of dangers and avoid them. ML “assistants” getting control over cars: people die of unpredictable mis-assessments of inputs vs. outputs, and there’s no way to anticipate any danger or try to avoid it.
People who advocate for non-deterministic systems taking control in cars are irresponsible and have blood on their hands.
Your description of a human driver is no different than a self driving vehicle.
An input/output error is the equivalent to a human mistake. And those happen far less often than a human mistake. People make unpredictable stupid mistakes driving all the time.