On Apr 6, 2015, at 5:08 PM, Chris Tromley via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> And there is no AI system sufficiently advanced to make the right > decision in every case. Your objections are a classic example of making the perfect the enemy of the good. In order to improve traffic safety, self-driving cars don't have to be perfect; they only have to be better than the average human. And they're already there, especially when you consider that the average human is too-often tired, distracted, drunk, or whatever. Even if everybody in the car is drunk, asleep, texting, legally blind, under the age of ten, or all of the above...the car is still going to drive itself more safely than most humans will when taking the driving test from the DMV. Again, it won't be perfect. It'll just be far, far superior to humans. As to who'll pay when self-driving cars crash...I'm sure it'll be the insurance companies. They'll be quite thrilled with them, as they'll be able to give "significant" discounts on insurance plans and simultaneously make insane profits because the'll be paying out far less with self-driving cars than with humans. That is, their expenses will drop to a negligible fraction of what they are today even as their income drops not even as much as the advertising lingo of "up to 15%!" In math...today you might pay them $100 / period and cost them, on average over all drivers, $50. You get a self-driving car, and you now pay them $85...but now you only cost them $5 at most. They've more than doubled their profits. b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150406/9c5592bb/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
