San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones | "It's a great time"
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Safe Streets Rebel's protest comes after automatic vehicles were blamed for incidents including crashing into a bus and running over a dog. City officials in June said...
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Well that is simply flawed logic. How many autonomous cars are there compared to human-operated? Far far more.
I think you meant less.
Ideally, you'd be correct and we should be looking at per capita incidents- like how many incidents per 100 miles on the road or something. But the article just cited a flat number of incidents without contextualizing, which as you've pointed out can be misleading. Without knowing the ratio of AVs to human-driven vehicles, the best rebuttal that could be offered is "Yeah, but how do those 90 incidents compare to how people drive?"
Yeah sorry - I meant less.
And yep agree on all the rest. I was just triggered by the simple comparison.