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Why should I take their marketing at face value?

Of course they are selling them as safe. I still think the funding to work on them is chasing big piles of money.



Human-driven car fatalities per day: 120+

Automated-car fatalities total: 1

Seems safer, so far.

Also, nothing's going to make walking out in front of a ton of steel going 30+mph 100% safe.


That's a very misleading comparison, even as an informal, rough comparison for the sake of argument.

Such a comparison would have to take into account the amount of human-driven cars and automated cars - not just taking a picture of a single day, but the variance over time (e.g. if today there are a thousand automated cars in operation, and yesterday there were 50, that can distort the average stats); automated cars aren't driving in certain areas/times/weather conditions whereas human-driven cars are, etc.

Automated cars may be safer, but, open snark – I hope it's not calculating its sensor data in this way — close snark.


This isn't the first automated car fatality though right? Hasn't Tesla had some?




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