That's not even close to a fair comparison. We just have to admit that there isn't a fair comparison yet and everyone's just got an axe to grind.
Because it's not that everyone ignores road fatalities, it's just that cruise hasn't driven (in terms of miles amd conditions) nowhere near to what might result in a fatality with human drivers.
Even then, in an incident they've not initiated, they've unnecessariliy made an existing bad situation far far worse.
> (i.e. we have no idea how safe Cruise would be if there were no human drivers on the road)
Self-driving cars have to exist in a world with human drivers, pedestrians, and the rest of reality. No one cares how well Cruise does in a sterile environment.
They should not only not cause incidents, they should also not make existing incidents far worse because of terrible decisions.
Just FYI, it made this terrible decision because people were mad at cruise for stopping in the middle of the road to decide if it was safe to proceed. They were asked to change that behavior and pull over and they did, this time just dragging a human along.
So yes let’s set these absurdly high standards, while we leave children to fend for themselves against human drivers that have met non-existent standards on a continual basis.
But then let’s actually leave the autonomous cars on the road to test if they’re actually meeting them.
As you agreed, some statistic they figure out in a sterile or simulation environment doesn’t actually matter. Let’s put them back on the road..
Driving is infinitely complex. It's becoming increasingly clear that the current approach to AVs not up to the challenge.
The status quo is indefensible so setting up moving unknowable goal posts for something to replace them doesn’t make sense to me.
This particular problem can be easily solved by cameras in the under carriage to make sure there aren’t humans shoved in there by other bad drivers. I wouldn’t mind making that a requirement across the board and moving on to the next challenge the unpredictability of human drivers throws at a repeatable robotic system.
There is no evidence that there is a magical different approach that will work better.
Looks like Cruise was well aware they are not even close to the average human driver when it comes to handling kids.
They didn't bother to tell us about that.
