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After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers
(arstechnica.com)
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No shit. The bar is low. Humans suck at driving. People love to throw FUD at automated driving, and it's far from perfect, but the more we delay adoption the more lives are lost. Anti-automation on the roads is up there with anti-vaccine mentality in my mind. Fear and the incorrect assumption that "I'm not the problem, I'm a really good driver," mentality will inevitably delay automation unnecessarily for years.
It'd probably be better to put a lot of the R&D money into improving and reinforcing public transport systems. Taking cars off the road and separating cars from pedestrians makes a bigger difference than automating driving.
In my country at least (US) that's just not going to happen.
WVU has a tram system called the "PRT". It's semi-automated cars on a track around campus and downtown. It's not great, but goddamn does it handle a large school population just fine. Very high throughput, and it keeps congestion down. ... as down as you can be with such a high density town.
That, and the inevitable bureaucratic nightmare that awaits for standardising across makes and updating the infrastructure.
Automation also can be abused, which I'm very very cautious about.