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Originally Posted by rd_aaron
I think it's neat, but I'm worried this will end up being a disaster. IMO, nothing can really replace human judgement.
Are these cars going to be able to notice someone running a red light before you drive into the intersection when the light turns green? Will they detect if a deer, or other animal, runs out from the ditch? Will it reailze you're coming up to an icy section of the road?
Obviously some of that responsibility will fall in the hands of the driver, but I have a feeling there will be a lot of people filing lawsuits every time a self-driving car gets in an accident.
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It won't better in every case, but I think it would be better in enough cases that when the system is perfected, to the point where we allow the mass public to purchase them at least, the overall accident numbers will be clearly better.
Anything to do with distracted driving? Eliminated.
Poor reaction time causing accidents? Eliminated.
Accidents due to other driver error, not eliminated obviously, but if everyone was driving one of these cars, would there be enough driver error from other vehicles that we would see accidents? I doubt it.