Uber manager in March: “We shouldn’t be hitting things every 15,000 miles”

Its a common flaw on reddit to compare these statisics. You see the "Self driving car officially better than humans!" headlines posted here every month. They are wrong.

No self driving car company drives in the same conditions that "driving fatalities" are operated in. Theoritecally all traffic deaths could happen in situations where Teslas have never been in, snow and rain, while merging, while street parking, etc. You don't know... the statistics you use assume everyone drives the same average conditions. We have to wait untill Teslas can do EVERYTHING, then wait untill they are used EVERYWHERE for EVERYTHING on average BY thusands of people in every state, with zero socioeconomic bias , and only then, can we start using those statistics. Then they will be comparable.

30% of human traffic fatalities are from drunk people too, so you have to account for that.

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