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Swiss Re, one of the world's largest insurance companies, says Waymo's self-driving cars are already safer than human driven cars. (www.swissre.com)
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[โ€“] Landmammals@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Self driving doesn't have to be perfect to be safer than humans driving.

[โ€“] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

No, but even if the number of deaths are significantly lower, the deaths that do occur can't be of a type a human would have absolutely avoided (ex: mistaking a truck for a sun glare, as happened with a Tesla IIRC), if we want wide adoption...