One of the big pluses for self-driving cars (AVs), eventually, is a dramatic reduction in deaths (etc), by taking all-too-fallible humans out from behind the wheel.
I vaguely recall numbers like 5% as the number of unavoidable deaths etc, though not a detailed breakdown of the reasons.
So what could be the causes of unavoidable deaths etc for AVs? Assume each is on its own, and can’t get near real-time info from nearby AVs; here are some that I thought of (AVs may turn near certain deaths to “mere” injuries, etc):
Freeway pileups, e.g. in dense fog, or on icy roads.
Landslides, rock slides, avalanches, etc. Perhaps flash floods belong here too.
Catastrophic equipment failure, especially at high speed.
Auto equivalent of what caused the Concorde crash.
Bridge, tunnel, roadway, etc collapse (my fave horror: sinkholes :))
Large animals suddenly trying to cross a (narrow) road.
And lots of highly unlikely causes, e.g. being hit by space junk, or an engine which fell off a plane.
More?
I vaguely recall numbers like 5% as the number of unavoidable deaths etc, though not a detailed breakdown of the reasons.
So what could be the causes of unavoidable deaths etc for AVs? Assume each is on its own, and can’t get near real-time info from nearby AVs; here are some that I thought of (AVs may turn near certain deaths to “mere” injuries, etc):
Freeway pileups, e.g. in dense fog, or on icy roads.
Landslides, rock slides, avalanches, etc. Perhaps flash floods belong here too.
Catastrophic equipment failure, especially at high speed.
Auto equivalent of what caused the Concorde crash.
Bridge, tunnel, roadway, etc collapse (my fave horror: sinkholes :))
Large animals suddenly trying to cross a (narrow) road.
And lots of highly unlikely causes, e.g. being hit by space junk, or an engine which fell off a plane.
More?
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