Cool, although I hope you’re aware that you’re confusing LLMs (mainstream in 2022) and machine learning which has existed for decades. Also what does this have to do with self driving cars?

First of all thank you for a more well reasoned answer.

I do think that there are several issues remaining however. First of all the cited article states that in case matched scenarios autonomous vehicles are less likely to crash, however this does not apply in bad weather conditions where they are about 6 times more likely to crash.

The above illustrates my point about failing gracefully, the autonomous systems work great under a huge range of conditions, the catch being that these conditions have to be preconceived. When encountering new conditions these systems tend to fail. These untested conditions might occur to bad visibility or water over camera lenses and so on. A human just is better at adapting to new situations quickly which is also confirmed in the above figures.

Now to the point of the future development and mass adoption I am not really opposed due to safety concerns, it is possible to make these systems safe. However in order to make them safe you would have to make their surroundings extremely predictable. I.e. you would have to adapt the infrastructure to suit the autonomous car. If you’re building infrastructure anyway, why not built rail infrastructure? It’s proven, cheaper, more efficient, has a proven safety record and is environmentally friendly.

Cars are great for situations where you need transport over areas that are quite unpredictable e.g. many rural areas with badly maintained roads. However autonomous vehicles are not suited for this unpredictability.

The fact that autonomous vehicles are being pushed anyway regardless of the risks is stupid in my opinion as the resources and brain cycles could be much better invested.

Ok Im assuming you’re either deluded, paid or an LLM. In the case you’re actually human, go find some statistics.

Ummm… no?

I guess you’re a shill and are going to say that self driving cars have caused way less death than human operated ones. While true, statistically the deaths caused by each self driving car is much higher than by each human operated car.

Also it should be argued that a machine should be held to a higher safety standard than a human.

Self driving cars as so far pretty shit. They have a tendency to fail ungracefully leading to considerable death and destruction.

This could be fixed by making purpose built roads for electric cars so that the environment is always predictable. However at that point you’re describing a train track and might as well run trains on it.

Huh, the 32gb of DDR3 I found in the dumpster might actually be worth something now