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> To me it is sufficient to beat the top 20% of drivers.

Computerized safety systems can, should, and are raising the bar, in terms of safety for the top 20% of drivers. "Self-Driving Cars" aren't competing in a static environment, similar tools are raising the safety bar that they have to compete against. This means it will get increasingly difficult to beat non-self-driving vehicles.



Shouldn't this rapidly lead to a convergence between self driving cars and human cars though? I assume a lot of the technology is similar.


Don't let silly little empirics around traffic fatalities in recent decades get in the way of a good narrative like this one!


> similar tools are raising the safety bar

And what is the story on driving becoming safer?




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