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After riding in a Waymo in Chandler, I can say that it's incredible how quickly that apprehension turns to boredom.
“Months of boredom punctuated by moments of terror”
89% of horse riders were afraid of riding a train.
In that analogy, though, what we have now isn't a train: it's a half-finished engine that usually works as expected but sometimes spontaneously derails.
In my teens and twenties I was very confident in my driving. As I've gotten older my self confidence and my confidence in others' driving abilities and attention to the road have eroded significantly. I've been rear ended several times, almost gotten hit by reckless drivers, and a few friends have died in traffic accidents. With every year that goes by, getting in the car feel more like a game of Russian roulette to…
In my teens and twenties I was very confident in my driving. As I've gotten older my self confidence and my confidence in others' driving abilities and attention to the road have eroded significantly. I've been rear ended several times, almost gotten hit by reckless drivers, and a few friends have died in traffic accidents. With every year that goes by, getting in the car feel more like a game of Russian roulette to…
> I've been rear ended several times, almost gotten hit by reckless drivers, and a few friends have died in traffic accidents All of which will happen to people riding in autonomous vehicles. I get what you're saying. But almost nobody fears their own driving on the road, they fear other people's driving.
You might know a couple people who always seem to get into wrecks. Some people talk about totaling four cars in conversation like it's the cost of doing business. It's jarring.
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Ratings: 1 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 Average Rating: 8.2 % Below Average: 10% % Above Average: 90%
Driving skills are literally to be normally distributed, which this distribution is not.
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Experience. Indirectly linked to age. When you have been driving for a number of years and have experienced how quickly and unexpectedly things can happen while driving, it's hard to completely put your life in the hands of an automated system.
I think it's more fundamental. I trust a computer more to react quickly to something unexpected than I trust myself to. Maybe I'm biased because I spend all day programming and poking at computers and almost none of it driving.
If I were to buy a new car today, I'd for sure look for one that has some of the modern safety features like lane keeping and automatic emergency braking. Dynamic cruise control would be great for long journeys. But I wouldn't feel safe riding in a car with what Tesla calls 'autopilot' capabilities, or more complete self-driving like Waymo - although to be fair in a city due to lower speeds the risk of injury (to myself) is going to less than on a highway, so I'd actually say I'd feel safer in Waymo than a Tesla.
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I think it's more fundamental. I trust a computer more to react quickly to something unexpected than I trust myself to. Maybe I'm biased because I spend all day programming and poking at computers and almost none of it driving.
I'm in my early 30s, and yes I also trust a computer to react better than me in the situations it has been trained for. The problem is for situations outside of the the normal, which based on my experience I'd say is what causes most fatalities in road traffic accidents. The fact that these are closed systems doesn't inspire confidence either - I wonder whether regulations will change this later, to require third par…