[LINK] itN: 'Third fatal Tesla Autopilot crash ...'

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2019-05-21 at 13:09 +0930, Sam Silvester wrote:
> > in an automated car which, as I've remarked before, is basically a
> > statistical processor which attempts to correlate sensor patterns
> > with those requiring action.

Yeah, and chess playing computers are "just this" and "just that" -
except they win every time. Every. Single. Time.

They didn't used to. They got better. And now machines are beating
humans at Go, too.

It's always magic until we understand it, and then it's "just a
computer" again.

Objectively, and regardless of the many, many variables that might be
affecting the fact, current driverless (ok, driver-assisted) cars are
already safer than human driven cars. Not perfect. Not absolutely safe.
But safer. They will get safer and safer still, because that's what we
humans do with machines, we make them better.

Regards, K.

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