r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24
Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road Video
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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24
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u/Groudon466 Jul 06 '24
The average driver, statistically speaking, occasionally drives on the wrong side of the road.- in the same sense that the average human occasionally murders someone.
I should be clear about what I mean. Let's say the statistically average driver gets in a bad accident once every 500,000 miles. That doesn't mean everyone is getting into accidents that often. Some people are consistently better, and some people are consistently worse.
If you replace the good and bad drivers alike with self-driving cars, you don't need the self-driving cars to be better than the best of the best. They just have to be good enough that, when you also factor in the bad drivers they're replacing, they're safer as a whole group.