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2 million miles travelled by autonomous car with a test driver isn't that impressive when in america which has a poor safety record there are ~70 million car miles between deaths - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki…
And that includes the poor who don’t have legal brakes or tyres.
Proving an autonomous vehicle can drive around an american suburb with…
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2 million miles travelled by autonomous car with a test driver isn't that impressive when in america which has a poor safety record there are ~70 million car miles between deaths - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year
And that includes the poor who don’t have legal brakes or tyres.
Proving an autonomous vehicle can drive around an american suburb with lowish speeds, wide roads, few pedestrians, cyclists and horses and no ice and little rain doesn't share much with normal driving.