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   From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/16/2025 8:41 PM, 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.   
      
      
   They don't have to be perfect - they merely have to statistically   
   safer than human drivers. I agree that unless we get AGI that can   
   fit in a car, there will be situations where a human can handle   
   a situation that a car can't.   
      
   A car never forgets to check the mirrors and blind spots.   
   It never gets drunk, dozy or distracted. While I think it's   
   sometimes a bit rude in changing lanes   
   in front of other cars, its never done so dangerously.   
      
   It does make mistakes; just today it pulled into a left   
   turn only lane at a stoplight when it needed to go straight.   
   I noticed and fixed it. Its clearly a work in progress, but   
   its gotten noticeably better over the last 6 months.   
      
   Humans don't drive cars perfectly. Cars don't need to be   
   perfect either, merely better than humans.   
      
   pt   
      
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