James Douma, the tech goddess in the autonomous driving indu...
James Douma, the tech goddess in the autonomous driving industry: Tesla's driverless taxis will be significantly different from other companies, and he will scale up quickly. If you have a system that's data safer than human drivers but isn't perfect, should you scale up the system quickly, or wait until it gets better?
If you scale up quickly, although it will reduce the overall traffic accident rate, there will be more autonomous driving accidents, and your company's reputation may be affected. Until now, other driverless taxis have been deployed to avoid expanding when the system is imperfect to avoid public opposition.
But that's not the right thing to do; the right thing to do is scale it up as soon as possible. This is exactly what Tesla is going to do, and they have said it and have shown it. Musk is very clear about this: Tesla will do the right thing, even if it causes them trouble. Once Tesla has solid statistics showing that unsupervised FSDs are safer than human drivers, they will scale up driverless taxis as soon as possible. This is no small moral dilemma. More than 1 million people die in traffic accidents every year, and 50 million people are seriously injured. Every day of delay in driverless taxi development, there will be thousands of deaths and injuries.
Delaying early deployment may slow broader deployment, and hesitation about rolling it out will definitely slow wider deployment. We need to expand this technology, and actively expand it, not until it's perfect, but until it's good enough. Once it's good enough, it should expand right away, because millions of lives are at risk.
If you scale up quickly, although it will reduce the overall traffic accident rate, there will be more autonomous driving accidents, and your company's reputation may be affected. Until now, other driverless taxis have been deployed to avoid expanding when the system is imperfect to avoid public opposition.
But that's not the right thing to do; the right thing to do is scale it up as soon as possible. This is exactly what Tesla is going to do, and they have said it and have shown it. Musk is very clear about this: Tesla will do the right thing, even if it causes them trouble. Once Tesla has solid statistics showing that unsupervised FSDs are safer than human drivers, they will scale up driverless taxis as soon as possible. This is no small moral dilemma. More than 1 million people die in traffic accidents every year, and 50 million people are seriously injured. Every day of delay in driverless taxi development, there will be thousands of deaths and injuries.
Delaying early deployment may slow broader deployment, and hesitation about rolling it out will definitely slow wider deployment. We need to expand this technology, and actively expand it, not until it's perfect, but until it's good enough. Once it's good enough, it should expand right away, because millions of lives are at risk.
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