| β | :::One of my pet concerns regarding AI cars has been about those "repainted" lines often seen especially around construction areas. With a bit of light shining in the wrong direction, or some rain, as a human driver you need to be VERY aware about what is going on, and be able to disregard '''the appearance''' of those "ghost" lines being real. I am sure that any AI that has some quality does likewise, i.e., take multiple data points regarding what is really going on, not just the lines themselves. However, and to the point of these comments, I would suspect that, such lines being "so real", and therefore, an authentic risk, they probably would result in human drivers crashing. Does that happen? Are accident data searchable for this kind of things? Note that, if that were the case, there would be liability consequences, and the construction company involved '''should''', probably, have to pay a bundle, following up that kind of chain of responsibility would be rather simple [citation needed], and, after this happens a few times, road construction companies would get the message, and be very careful about said ghost lines. But. Ghost lines still exists. Thus, either they pose no Real Life hazard, or showing liability is not so plain, or... <br>Some of our colleague commentards here seem to imply that AI would not be worse than humans, and that somehow humans are generally safe, and thus all is essentially OK? <br>With all due respect, humans are '''not''' safe drivers, not in any sense that would put a sane person's mind at ease regarding going out of the house, as accurately explained on [[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1990:_Driving_Cars XKCD/1990]]. What is going on, as has been pretty well established (see recent events, June 2020), is that we appear to have become inured to car accidents (inured: don't care). Some people have been pointing at this when trying to demonstrate that the covid-19 crisis is of no real import. Apparently (I personally don't know and only marginally care about any mathematical difference, in my mind both are terrible) the deaths from car accidents are significantly higher than those, at this date, by covid-19. Their argument being that we should not care so much about covid-19, ''because we don't (seem to) care about car accident deaths''. My argument being, supported by the title text in XKCD/1990, and [[https://www.bestonlinetrafficschool.co/car-crash-statistics/ this link in the comments there]], that AI driven cars will win, not because they are that much safer, or the same as humans, but because courts and the general public will happily accept the resulting deaths as part of the way things are, as they do with human-caused road mayhem. Whatever. Anyway, as to the State of the Art in 2018, AI cars still get fiercely confused by rain and snow [[https://www.theregister.com/2018/05/09/self_driving_taxis_waymo/ see pictures and comment here]], which would explain why so much testing has moved to Arizona... [[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] ([[User talk:Yamaplos|talk]]) 13:55, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
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