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Originally Posted by accord1999
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).
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And yet despite all that most research is showing that is implemented successfully, self driving cars can still save hundreds of thousands of lives.
Even right now the idea of driver assistance is paying big dividends. All the car manufacturers are advertising some form of 'vehicle automation.'
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This is not merely theoretical. There’s already some precedent for change of this magnitude in the realms of car culture and automotive safety. In 1970, about 60,000 people died in traffic accidents in the United States. A dramatic shift toward safety—including required seat belts and ubiquitous airbags—helped vastly improve a person’s chance of surviving the American roadways in the decades that followed. By 2013, 32,719 people died in traffic crashes, a historic low.
Researchers estimate that driverless cars could, by midcentury, reduce traffic fatalities by up to 90 percent. Which means that, using the number of fatalities in 2013 as a baseline, self-driving cars could save 29,447 lives a year. In the United States alone, that's nearly 300,000 fatalities prevented over the course of a decade, and 1.5 million lives saved in a half-century. For context: Anti-smoking efforts saved 8 million lives in the United States over a 50-year period.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...merica/407956/
It is just a matter of time.
But hey, Green Lantern says nobody will 'like' it, so I guess we have that to go on.