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> And while a single frame might be missing a label, I bet that at-speed most everything important gets labeled correctly enough to be better than a distracted human driver, or the average human driver for that matter. Would you bet a family member? That a distracted driver is a hazard does not mean other drivers are safe, or even saf er .
>Would you bet a family member? "think of the children!" Lives at stake don't change anything here. The question is whether self-driving cars, even with the errors, are safer for people than regular drivers on average. If so, then absolutely yes everyone should bet their lives and their families'. Thousands of people are dying every day in cars. This is not something we need to wait for it to be perfect. It only need…
You could say "the question is whether aircraft, even with the errors, are safe for people than regular drivers on average. If so..." - then how should we change policy towards Boeing in light of the 737 MAX fiasco? Should we then avoid any adverse action towards them and focus on encouraging more people to fly?
If we declare that something is safer, particularly before it even exists, isn't there a danger of a feedback loop that prevents it from being safer?
Regular drivers kill people, but they are also generally vulnerable to the crashes that they cause. Boeing engineers, or the programmers of self-driving AIs, don't have their interests aligned with you, the occupant of the vehicle, nearly as much.