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>Fatalities will happen sometimes

How many self-driving cars are there on the roads right now? And what's fatality rate? I' quite sure it's higher now than compared to human-only driver.

> they are unavoidable sometimes

Were autonomous cars not designed to prevent such situations?

>Let's, as a community, set the standard for how we will react to these events

Yes and let's punish non-conformists!

> which gets posted on HN whenever a self-driving article comes out.

I honestly have no idea what that comment is.



Probably not since Google drove millions of KM without a single fatality.


As of late 2017, Google/Waymo had recorded just 4 million miles of real-world self-driving in its entire history: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/27/waymo-racks-up-4-million-s...

NHTSA data measures number of fatalities by the hundreds of millions of miles driven -- the latest rate being 1.18 fatalities per 100 million miles: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/usdot-releases-2016-fat...


Yes, absolutely, let's ostracize people who react to this situation (a machine killing some random person in a fatal beta test) with anything other than compassion and humility.

Those are not people I want in my engineering community; just impossible to trust they'd make the right calls and have the right priorities in developing cool new stuff.




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