>Human driving has basically capped out at its potential to improve. It may even be starting to get worse...
But we can significantly improve on that. Augmenting human capability is far easier than converting a pile of transistors to perform at the same level as humans. Improving road safety infrastructure is also possible - today, Improving technology in cars to detect when the driver is impaired is also easily possible - today. We don't need pie in the sky "autopilot" technology to improve on the current situation.
>Automated driving, has barely begun and even if it is less safe today, it will clearly be much safer than human driving soon. And will only continue to get safer and safer as the technology improves.
You can say that about anything. One day a bacterium will evolve into a human. Also, its more than reasonable to say, we don't want to get killed because some dude in the valley pushed a firmware update. If the tech sucks, don't endanger other humans. Go fix it, and come back and we'll gladly take a look at it again since it does have value. As of now, people are better off staying away from any Teslas on the roads.
But we can significantly improve on that. Augmenting human capability is far easier than converting a pile of transistors to perform at the same level as humans. Improving road safety infrastructure is also possible - today, Improving technology in cars to detect when the driver is impaired is also easily possible - today. We don't need pie in the sky "autopilot" technology to improve on the current situation.
>Automated driving, has barely begun and even if it is less safe today, it will clearly be much safer than human driving soon. And will only continue to get safer and safer as the technology improves.
You can say that about anything. One day a bacterium will evolve into a human. Also, its more than reasonable to say, we don't want to get killed because some dude in the valley pushed a firmware update. If the tech sucks, don't endanger other humans. Go fix it, and come back and we'll gladly take a look at it again since it does have value. As of now, people are better off staying away from any Teslas on the roads.