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From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com
On 10/16/25 17:41, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 10/16/2025 1:07 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
> I don't know if we are going to reach the point where a non-sentient
> software bundle can be a better driver than a human. Humans having
> actual situational awareness and the near infinity of things that
> _could_ cause a vehicle trouble makes me skeptical, at least for MANY
> years to come.
>
The driving software will become more sentient and frankly I have seen
human drivers do stupid things nearly every time I am around to watch
them.
Also walkers, bicyclers, and motor vehicles operators of 1, 2, 3, 4 wheeled
motor vehicles are uniformly ignoring the environment in which they
operate which
is filled with heavier machines with erratic operators.
bliss
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