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Comment by michaelt

5 days ago

About half of road deaths involve drivers who are drunk or high. But only a very small fraction of drivers drive drunk or high - 50% of deaths are caused by 2% of drivers.

A self-driving car that merely achieves parity would be worse than 98% of the population.

Gotta do twice the accident-free mileage to achieve parity with the sober 98%.

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