• TendieMaster69@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    “The total number of crashes involving the technology is minuscule compared with all road incidents; NHTSA estimates that more than 40,000 people died in wrecks of all kinds last year.”

    Are these automation accidents occurring disproportionately compared to human driver car accidents? I don’t care to do the calculation, neither did the author.

    • Akasazh@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I think it’s quite hard a you’d have to compare it on ‘time spent behind the wheel’, which is not easy to precisely calculate.