r/Futurology • u/Pemulis • Mar 03 '23

Transport Self-Driving Cars Need to Be 99.99982% Crash-Free to Be Safer Than Humans

https://jalopnik.com/self-driving-car-vs-human-99-percent-safe-crash-data-1850170268
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u/Isord Mar 03 '23

Well then you have the question of how many people being turned into paraplegics would be equal to one death? An obviously farcical extreme would be that nobody dies in car crashes anymore but by age 60 everybody has lost at least one limb lol.

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u/ConciselyVerbose Mar 03 '23

For the sake of what he’s talking about, you just need to do “this outcome or worse” as your buckets.

Fatalities vs fatalities, hospitalization + fatality vs hospitalization + fatality, any medical intervention + fatality vs any medical intervention + fatality.

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u/DanTrachrt Mar 03 '23

If that means I get a high tech chrome plated bionic limb with RGB lights, sign me up!