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Safer than the highest level numbers isn't really a win though for autonomous driving. All human caused deaths includes drunk drivers, inexperienced drivers, and elderly drivers. An autonomous system should never be any of those things, so comparing them against is disingenuous at best and outright manipulative at worst.

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That's extremely silly. drunk, inexperienced, and elderly drivers are all human drivers. You can't just exclude them from your baseline because they are not in perfect driving form.

Let's also exclude young drivers, stupid drivers, distracted drivers, drivers who never took driver's education classes, short drivers, barefoot drivers, glasses-wearing drivers who forgot their glasses, and one handed drivers.

The insane variation of human drivers is exactly why AVs should ultimately bring vehicular deaths down..which is the goal.

You absolutely can and should exclude the known bad drivers from the stats because they are essentially outliers. If you don't, it's very possible that widespread adoption of AVs actually makes the average driver more dangerous.

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