Self driving car kills its first pedestrian!

[NYC-SE]

Interesting (and scary) article about Uber's driverless cars:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03...program/?amp=1

From the article:

"Conventional car crashes killed 37,461 in the United States in 2016, which works out to 1.18 deaths per 100 million miles driven. Uber announced that it had driven 2 million miles by December 2017 and is probably up to around 3 million miles today. If you do the math, that means that Uber's cars have killed people at roughly 25 times the rate of a typical human-driven car in the United States."

[tmontague]

Originally Posted by NYC-SE

Interesting (and scary) article about Uber's driverless cars:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03...program/?amp=1

From the article:

"Conventional car crashes killed 37,461 in the United States in 2016, which works out to 1.18 deaths per 100 million miles driven. Uber announced that it had driven 2 million miles by December 2017 and is probably up to around 3 million miles today. If you do the math, that means that Uber's cars have killed people at roughly 25 times the rate of a typical human-driven car in the United States."

The joys of reading the media butcher statistics, typically it's when reporting on medicine that grinds my gears. Publishing relative figures is hyperbole, absolute numbers is what is more appropriate to publish