Not all of the humans are bad drivers, but some of them definitely are. I have been living in the US for 4 years and here are the list of things that are extremely dangerous:
- not using signals at all, just randomly changing lanes
- not using signals at all and on the top of that do not care about traffic in the other lanes
- driving 45 mph in the left lane because California teaches to new drivers that changing lanes are dangerous, aka "stick to your lane" (I learned that recently and I could not believe)
- driving with the exact same attitude in rain like under dry weather conditions
- do not care about people merging lanes, do not look at them, pretend they dont exist
- being on facebook on the highway driving with 65mph
- do not care about bicycles, pretending they are not legitimate traffic
I am not sure about the rest of US, but several friends told me it is specific to California. I would argue that humans are not as good drivers, at least there is a large part of drivers who aren't. Replacing drivers with software is always going to win, just like it did with airplanes or anything else repetitive task that we automated. I am pretty sure there is going to be a period while AI is not as good as humans but this is why Google is collecting to data at large scale to improve it to beat humans and make driving a safer way to commute.
- not using signals at all, just randomly changing lanes
- not using signals at all and on the top of that do not care about traffic in the other lanes
- driving 45 mph in the left lane because California teaches to new drivers that changing lanes are dangerous, aka "stick to your lane" (I learned that recently and I could not believe)
- driving with the exact same attitude in rain like under dry weather conditions
- do not care about people merging lanes, do not look at them, pretend they dont exist
- being on facebook on the highway driving with 65mph
- do not care about bicycles, pretending they are not legitimate traffic
I am not sure about the rest of US, but several friends told me it is specific to California. I would argue that humans are not as good drivers, at least there is a large part of drivers who aren't. Replacing drivers with software is always going to win, just like it did with airplanes or anything else repetitive task that we automated. I am pretty sure there is going to be a period while AI is not as good as humans but this is why Google is collecting to data at large scale to improve it to beat humans and make driving a safer way to commute.