FWIW, 1,000 orders of magnitude is an order of magnitude larger than a googol.
Also where these miles happen, and how long they take relative to a human driver (1.1x?) matter quite a bit.
edit: I've never shared a road with a self-driving car but I can't imagine I'd like it. I'm extremely patient with fellow meatbags (I work a lot of customer service, and enjoy it), but I'm not at all patient with software thinking it's smarter than it is. I also think people tend to underestimate how much "car-body language" is involved with driving as well, but I suppose that's the primary thing self-driving cars are learning.
Self-driving cars can also burgeon a surveillance state depending on how the fleet is implemented, particularly around what will be required for client-side redaction (pedestrians, license plates, windows etc). Keeping raw data locally for a period of time is fine in case of crash/malfunction, even backing it up encrypted with ephemeral keys can be well and good. But unfettered collection and access to unredacted data—perhaps something Google is drooling over—needs to be stopped cold.
Also where these miles happen, and how long they take relative to a human driver (1.1x?) matter quite a bit.
edit: I've never shared a road with a self-driving car but I can't imagine I'd like it. I'm extremely patient with fellow meatbags (I work a lot of customer service, and enjoy it), but I'm not at all patient with software thinking it's smarter than it is. I also think people tend to underestimate how much "car-body language" is involved with driving as well, but I suppose that's the primary thing self-driving cars are learning.
Self-driving cars can also burgeon a surveillance state depending on how the fleet is implemented, particularly around what will be required for client-side redaction (pedestrians, license plates, windows etc). Keeping raw data locally for a period of time is fine in case of crash/malfunction, even backing it up encrypted with ephemeral keys can be well and good. But unfettered collection and access to unredacted data—perhaps something Google is drooling over—needs to be stopped cold.