Just yesterday while driving to the gym, I witnessed the person behind me at a red light, violently gas it and swerve out into oncoming traffic lanes, drive past all the cars waiting for the light, and blow straight through the red light.
He went on to blow another red light before turning off onto a side street.
This kind of shit would never happen with a self driving car. The bar for self driving cars is incredibly low.
Maybe your bar. A reasonable (minimal) bar is that they have to perform at the 50th percentile of drivers by safety. This guy sounds like the first percentile.
Depends what the curve is, doesn't it? If the worst 1% of drivers cause 90% of the accidents, then replacing all drivers with vehicles at the 2nd percentile would drop the accident rate.
Well, that kind of stuff would still happen since in that case the driver was deliberately driving recklessly.
In fact, people could start accounting on other people's self driving cars being cautions and deliberately betting on their safety features. e.g If most people were driving a Tesla I could more safety run red lights since their other cars will stop for me automatically.
Unless we are going to make self-driving ONLY cars that is.
> Unless we are going to make self-driving ONLY cars that is.
This is the dream.
EDIT: More specifically, I envision a world where to manually drive your car you have to past a MUCH more rigorous test than the current licensing process. Including background checks for infractions such as DUI, would ban / block you from obtaining a manual driving license.
You would of course retain your freedom to have a car that can drive itself.
He went on to blow another red light before turning off onto a side street.
This kind of shit would never happen with a self driving car. The bar for self driving cars is incredibly low.