Originally Posted by
woog315
You can choose to have whatever attitude you want about this stuff, of course there will be accidents and there is still work to be done, but the autopilot per mile driven is already *far* safer than a human per mile driven. People crash their cars all day every day. I know everyone thinks they are a better driver than everyone else on the road, but statistically the machines are already significantly better than we are.
Worth pointing out that statistics actually don't exist for that yet.
What we have stats for is expensive niche cars (that matters because it determines the driver demographic) operating with automation SUPERVISED by human drivers, who are again of a certain demographic.