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Autonomous vehicles are great at driving straight (ieee.org)
16 points by pseudolus 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Important points from the article:

> [Y]ou cannot combine accidents with self-driving cars [SAE Level 4] with the accidents of Teslas [SAE Level 2],” said Cummings. She took issue with discussing them in tandem and points out these categories of vehicles operate differently....

> [Level 4 vehicles] were roughly 36 percent less likely to be involved in moderate injury accidents and 90 percent less likely to be involved in a fatal accident. Compared to human-driven vehicles, the risk of rear-end collision was roughly halved, and the risk of a broadside collision was roughly one-fifth. Level 4 AVs were close to one-fifthtieth as likely to run off the road.

> [However] they were over five times more likely to be involved in an accident at dawn and dusk. They were relatively bad at navigating turns as well, with the odds of an accident during a turn almost doubled compared to those for human-driven vehicles.

I assume that the findings in paragraph 2 are despite the limitations from paragraph 3? That makes the "regular driving" performance look even more impressive.


This is easily the funniest serious-face headline I've read all month.




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