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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-10-16 20:07:27 +0000, Cryptoengineer said:   
      
   > On 10/16/2025 1:12 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >> Cryptoengineer   wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> But both are improving as time goes by. My car installed an OTA   
   >>> update just last night.   
   >>>   
   >>> Do you think these are insoluble problems?   
   >>   
   >> I think there are insoluble problems with self-driving.   
   >>   
   >> 1. Human drivers are lousy.   
   >>   
   >> 2. Self-driving cars have to share the road with human drivers   
   >>   
   >> 3. Human drivers will always blame self-driving cars in an accident; that   
   >> is the standard for driving quality is much higher for the self-driving   
   >> car than for a human being.   
   >   
   > Tesla claims (and I take the claim with a LOT of salt) that the   
   > cybercabs in Austin are having incidents at 1/10 to 1/8 the rate of   
   > human driven cars. Again, I'd like to see some independent   
   > confirmation.   
      
   That's a great example of statistics being misused to fool people. The   
   number of self-driving cars around is currently extremely low compared   
   to the number of human drivers, so of course self-driving cars will   
   have fewer accidents in total.   
      
   To push the misuse of statistics to the other end, if / when   
   self-driving cars ever eventually replace *all* human drivers, then   
   self-driving cars will have 100% of the accidents ... meaning   
   self-driving cars are extremely bad drivers compared to the human   
   driver who have 0% of the accidents (because they don't exist).  :-p   
      
      
      
      
   > Once automated driving systems are demonstrably safer than human   
   > drivers, the insurance companies will drive adoption by charging   
   > higher premiums if you insist on driving manually.   
   >   
   > pt   
      
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