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<blockquote data-quote="FAVREFAN" data-source="post: 2415437" data-attributes="member: 13078"><p>The human death rate is 1 per 84million miles driven on U.S. roads. Tesla's death rate under "autopilot" is 1 in 222million as of 10 days ago. By the end of the month, it will be 200% safer than humans in it's "beta" mode. They are on level 2 of 4 levels of autonomous driving and its already 200% safer than humans.</p><p></p><p>You might be safe as a driver for your 25 years. All the major truck manufacturers are making and testing some form of autonomous semi trucks already. UPS will start bringing these in most likely in the 8-10 year range. Obviously these things are grandfathered. It may happen where a new contract is negotiated where say 25% of all new feeder jobs would be autonomous. And then say the next contract might be 50% and then 75%, etc. Until no new jobs would be filled by humans and all current drivers would be used where needed. So it would happen over time, not overnight.</p><p></p><p>As you say, humans are flawed. Right now, the biggest danger to a Tesla Model S driving on autopilot is the human driving the other vehicle that is unpredictable. The hardest thing according to the experts in developing self driving software is the unpredictability of humans.</p><p></p><p>As far as hacking goes, 99% of new cars today are already hackable. If you use your phone connected to your Bluetooth connection on your car, it's hackable. If you use internet connectivity on your car, it's hackable. Peeps need to watch 60</p><p>minutes more. They covered all these topics multiple times. Including Amazons drone delivery program which is going to kick UPS's(our) luddite asses if we don't get our heads out of our ass in a big hurry.</p><p></p><p>In order to defeat your enemy, you must know your enemy. All the naysayers in here need to get out of the way, and stop holding progress back. Our competitors are doing it, so we better freakin get caught up, or you/we/all will be out of a job in 10 years. Drones and autonomous driving is coming. Either we excel at that to compete or fall by the wayside. Your choice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FAVREFAN, post: 2415437, member: 13078"] The human death rate is 1 per 84million miles driven on U.S. roads. Tesla's death rate under "autopilot" is 1 in 222million as of 10 days ago. By the end of the month, it will be 200% safer than humans in it's "beta" mode. They are on level 2 of 4 levels of autonomous driving and its already 200% safer than humans. You might be safe as a driver for your 25 years. All the major truck manufacturers are making and testing some form of autonomous semi trucks already. UPS will start bringing these in most likely in the 8-10 year range. Obviously these things are grandfathered. It may happen where a new contract is negotiated where say 25% of all new feeder jobs would be autonomous. And then say the next contract might be 50% and then 75%, etc. Until no new jobs would be filled by humans and all current drivers would be used where needed. So it would happen over time, not overnight. As you say, humans are flawed. Right now, the biggest danger to a Tesla Model S driving on autopilot is the human driving the other vehicle that is unpredictable. The hardest thing according to the experts in developing self driving software is the unpredictability of humans. As far as hacking goes, 99% of new cars today are already hackable. If you use your phone connected to your Bluetooth connection on your car, it's hackable. If you use internet connectivity on your car, it's hackable. Peeps need to watch 60 minutes more. They covered all these topics multiple times. Including Amazons drone delivery program which is going to kick UPS's(our) luddite asses if we don't get our heads out of our ass in a big hurry. In order to defeat your enemy, you must know your enemy. All the naysayers in here need to get out of the way, and stop holding progress back. Our competitors are doing it, so we better freakin get caught up, or you/we/all will be out of a job in 10 years. Drones and autonomous driving is coming. Either we excel at that to compete or fall by the wayside. Your choice. [/QUOTE]
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