People love shitting on autonomous driving and I agree that it isn’t ready yet which is why the driver is supposed to still be paying attention, but I think people are way worse and are more likely to cause an accident.
I think it varies. A trained human who is paying attention is better than the self driving script (for now?), but sometimes the human driver is drunk, busy texting, or someone whose idea of training was “I’ve ridden in cars before, how hard can it be?”
It’s not hard to outperform those cases, but “better than Drunkotron” isn’t enough to roll out self driving everywhere.
People love shitting on autonomous driving and I agree that it isn’t ready yet which is why the driver is supposed to still be paying attention, but I think people are way worse and are more likely to cause an accident.
I think it varies. A trained human who is paying attention is better than the self driving script (for now?), but sometimes the human driver is drunk, busy texting, or someone whose idea of training was “I’ve ridden in cars before, how hard can it be?”
It’s not hard to outperform those cases, but “better than Drunkotron” isn’t enough to roll out self driving everywhere.