This is precisely why I will never ever let a car auto pilot me and my family. If I am going to die, it better be because of my negligence and not because someone "oopsies" code.
Those 1/10th figures are in city areas. I'd like to see autopilot work out where I live in rural areas where deer, hogs, and other critters on the road are present and lines marking lanes are either faded or non existent.
Genuinely I would love to see it work. I think it is cool, but I won't use it. I like driving and I like being in control of my destiny. Even if the risk is higher. That's what makes us human.
Dealing with deer, hogs, cows, etc...is a much easier problem than obstructions in an urban area. Heck, even the roads are easier to deal with since where those lines are faded are only two lane anyways.
But self driving cars aren’t even aimed at rural areas anyways. Rural areas simply don’t have the traffic or parking problems that make self driving cars incredibly desirable in urban areas.
I've grown up in rural areas, and I think that at some point, automated driving can be even better in those scenarios than humans can be.
I have not seen any evidence of us being at that point today. Of course, the focus of these companies right now is on intra-urban transit, for reasons that make almost make sense from a revenue perspective.
The one thing I want to see autopilot / assisted driving on is 18 wheelers. I've seen too many people get hit by trucks after crossing the median because the driver fell asleep.
