Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders
Am I the only one feeling the press + big tech narrative of "driverless vehicles = safety" is way ahead of itself?  OK, "driver error is blamed for 94% of crashes", but what is the validation strategy to show where driverless cars can quantifiably improve?  In 2016,  Philip Koopman of CMU discusses that there are non-trivial engineering challenges of achieving safety in NHTSA Level 4 vehicle automation:  <a href="https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman16_sae_autonomous_validation.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman16_sae_autono...</a><p>If we are building the safest transportation system, what role do driverless vehicles play?  Wouldn't that be the narrative that actually saves the most lives?