Waymo's collision avoidance testing
I think the problem we have with self-driving cars is more social than technological at this point.Consider the hypothetical: a million self-driving cars on the road that, collectively, will have 1/10th of the fatal accidents that human drivers would have[0]. But, the ones they do have are accidents a human driver would almost certainly have avoided.Is this something we would accept?My guess is that no, we wouldn't. Because the accidents avoided don't make the news, but the accidents that occur- especially ones that you say "my god, how did it screw that up?" will make the news, and our perception would be that they are more dangerous.Until Waymo's cars are better than most humans in every single situation, they won't be able to win over the public perception war.[0]I'm making those numbers up. I acknowledge that. But it's a hypothetical so give me some leeway on this!