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Gareth321 • today at 2:27 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Setting your experience aside, my national transport agency in Denmark recently approved Tesla full self driving because the data confirmed that it’s safer than the average driver. I think it’s both true that these cars can fault, and that they’re safer on average than humans. To be clear, Denmark is not alone. Many European countries have approved it for the same reason, and many more are evaluating. Holland is the toughest to pass, and they passed.


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muddi900 • today at 6:37 PM

Self-driving cars have fat-tailed risk.

Some outside factor might cause a signal failure, causing cascading destruction.

amanaplanacanal • today at 4:07 PM

I assume you meant full self driving supervised, not actual full self driving.

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paxy • today at 2:33 PM

"Safer than the average driver" is great if all the below-average drivers start buying Teslas. But if you're converting drivers on the other end of the spectrum then the roads become less safe overall.

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