Self-driving cars are still a fantasy. I don't want the AI to be comparable to an average driver (who collectively get into 6 million accidents) . I want the AI to meet/exceed the skills of the best driver. There is no way anyone would trust an "average" driver to pickup their kids, more than themselves.
> There is no way anyone would trust an "average" driver to pickup their kids, more than themselves.
I mean, most parents will—at some point—trust their teenage children to pick up their younger siblings. And teenagers are decidedly below-average drivers.
The average driver is pretty terrible though. Average is a pretty low bar to clear, and I think there's a decent argument to be made that waymo's disengagement numbers are already better than an average driver.
It's possible (though unlikely) for everyone who picks up kids on behalf of parents to be an above-average driver, since the people doing that are a small share of all drivers.
