'No human passengers' -> except for those in all the other vehicles on the road; for cruise it is 'and the passengers of the vehicle'.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how confident are you that your service won't kill someone?
On a scale of 1 to 10, how confident are you that your service won't kill someone?
>Fatalities from Crashes
>In 2016, over 33,000 traffic crashes resulting in fatalities, major injuries or minor injuries were reported on Bay Area roadways.
10% of the crashes resulted in more than minor injuries, so 3.3K serious crashes.
Drivers in the USA are - sorry - absolutely terrible, the driving license requirements are ridiculous.
F1 cars can break 7g’s cornering where street legal cars have trouble hitting 1/3 of that. They do 0-120 mph faster than most cars can hit 0-60.
You may know this already but here in the US, even though driving is technically a “privilege”, in reality it is a requirement in most locales due to lack of consistent and reliable alternatives. That’s part of why getting a drivers license is fairly easy.
It’s also why your “I’ll have my son shred my license after I turn 70” wouldn’t work unless you were living in a place like NYC or Chicago, or were totally okay with having little social life (dependent on your kids’ and friends’ ability and willingness to drive you to places).
I'm all for self driving cars and I believe they are the future. I also believe they will be a decade or more in the coming and that we need at least one more level-up before AI sofware/hardware combos are solid enough that your typical self-driving solution will outperform an experienced driver.
(Or even better, what he predicts will be the distance driven per serious at-fault crash.)
Maybe he does care, but how much?
This is not to be flippant (i appreciated and used Justin.TV a ton back in the day..canceled Cable TV cause everything was there for one to watch ... 24/7 marathons of your favorite shows) but what I view of the harsh reality of putting these things on the road as Uber's self driving car already killed a pedestrian. Personally, I'm not sure I could in good conscious work for a robot car company (just was being recruited by such a company).