Comment by Dylan16807
6 months ago
Comparing to taxi rates and positing a car that's pretty good by human terms, $500 a month for insurance defeats the purpose of autonomous? It doesn't seem like a big issue to me. That's less than a dollar per ride at unimpressive safety levels, so I can't imagine why it would need to be 100x safer.
Because you’re going to amplify “errors” and “failures” if you have a system of cars running same or similar autonomous models.
Amplified meaning if you have 1000x as many cars you have 1000x as many failures?
That's fine. Insurance is built on that model. What's the issue?
Or do you mean something else?
(If amplify means a ton of the cars crash on the same day because they share code, I doubt that being a big effect, because all the cars are in different places working on different data feeds. And even moderately high spikes would be absorbed fine.)
(If amplify means the crash rate of each car goes up when you add more cars to the fleet... why would that happen?)