About whether Google's self-driving car record proves it drives better than humans.
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About whether Google's self-driving car record proves it drives better than humans.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hours driven are one dimension, that is indeed important. However, there is also the geographical aspect that I point out and that may be more important in practice. I mentioned off-road driving. There's also driving in busy roads. The Google car project has not driven for 1 million miles in a busy city, like NY or SF or whatever, neither in heavy traffic conditions.
Then there's the fact that human drivers have to drive in all sorts of weather conditions with all sorts of different vehicles and so on. Google car- not so much.
But my point is very simple: AI in general is nowhere near producing autonomous robots, yet. Why would Google car (or a similar project) be the exception? What makes cars and driving so different that autonomy is easier to attain?