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Is it a bullshit stat though? it's not like you or I can go to a different dimension where all drivers are healthy, fully awake, undistracted, sober, competent, etc.

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You don't need to. You just need to be in good condition yourself and actually paying attention. Professional delivery drivers routinely achieve seemingly absurd mileages per incident.

Yes, but I don't actually trust most folks to be in a "good condition". Even the best drivers have their off days.

Well, if we were talking about forcing people to stop driving and transition to current waymos it's plausible that diligent sober drivers would be facing greater risk. Would that be acceptable to improve average statistics?

> if we were talking about forcing people to stop driving and transition to current waymos

We're not

If you're arguing to the regulator that "look these cars are not as bad as humans overall" I guess that's fine, but if you're trying to sell me on using self-driving by comparing to something that's completely unrelated to my use-cases that's just BS.

Unless their message is "if you're drunk turn on self driving" which I could get behind, I sincerely doubt current self driving is better than humans - simply because of the data they chose to compare to. If they were better than professional taxi drivers I'm sure they would tout that data widely.

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