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Originally Posted by Azure
I'm not talking about the Uber or Tesla cars. I'm talking about the Waymo 'test' cars, or similar types of systems that have been operating for many years.
I was wrong to say that it wasn't without incident, but the incident level is very low.
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But the incident rate and fatality rate of normal human drivers are also very low. Even with 37000 fatalities (of which 13-14% are actually motorcyclists), American drive about 3.2 trillion vehicle miles per year, so that's a fatality of one every 90 million miles. And that's in all conditions and environments, and without the benefit of a secondary driver whose only job is to take over when you get confused or distracted (or take the blame when the driver can't save you in time).