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The numbers that I have seen indicate that humans have a fatal accident roughly once per hundred million miles, while we have one fatal accident for a self-driving car, with somewhere around ten million miles driven across all self-driving cars.

I've heard Uber is around 3 million self-driving miles.

So Uber would be 30x worse than humans.



Good to know! But I am more curious for the data cover every self-driving vehicles, not just about Uber. It could be Uber is doing worse, but my ask is whether we (as an industry) is still on a right direction for this "bold bet".


Interesting analysis, but the data seems a little sparse to draw this conclusion.


We also don't know how many fatal crashes were avoided due to human intervention (Uber has people inside the cars). It is almost certainly a whole lot worse than 30x at this stage.




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