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Self-driving cars will be safe, we're testing them in a massive AI Sim

Mike 137 Silver badge

Re: Evidence?

If you want evidence of what is required for confidence in this technology being safe, see the US Consumer Watchdog report. I quote: 'Google/Waymo claims that its computer-controlled vehicles have logged 300 years of human driving experience. But the testing that would be required in order to match the safety tolerance of commercial airplanes is estimated at over one hundred millennia. A lower level of safety – “a level of 80 percent confidence that the robotic vehicle is 90 percent safer than human drivers on the road,” would still require 11 billion miles of testing (or about 5,000 years), according to researchers at the University of Michigan'.

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