Another "perfect" Driverless Car.......

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37689726
Oh dear! Still no one died this time.

[jim360]

Breaking news: emergent technology still not 100% perfect.

[hc4361]

What caused the crash? Would a driver have been able to foresee it and avoid it without danger to anyone else?

[Mamyalynne]

A 4 mph trial run, best time for finding out snags.

[ToraToraTora]

I wish it would hurry up jim, I want to go on tour in my car and get rat ar5sed in country battle cruisers and get it to drop me off home whilst I kip on the back seat.

[jim360]

You could do that now if you had any willing friends to drive you home afterwards.

[ToraToraTora]

it crashed at 4mph! PMSL, cars do exceed that on occasion.

[Gromit]

Let's number crunch this one.

Today a driverless* car crashed at 4mph, no one was hurt.

Today there were 27,000 crashes of non driverless cars.
Today 3,500 people died in accidents involving non driverless cars.

[Gromit]

* This car had a driver on board.

[EDDIE51]

Where do you get ''perfect'' driverless car from?
It clearly says it was on a run trial by the two engineers so it was far from ''perfect'' !

[ToraToraTora]

3500! get real gromit it's about half that per year.

[EDDIE51]

TTT around 125 Million people are killed every year on the roads worldwide
http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/en/
That is 342,465 per day ! Figures were from 2013 so it will be higher now!
Gromit's estimate was 100 times too low!
Your estimate of 1750 per year was 2,000 times too low!!!!

[ToraToraTora]

I was talking about UK

[jim360]

Granted it's "only" 2000 a year, or so, but that's basically the same number for all practical purposes so I can't say that it makes the point any less relevant. Humans on the road are unsafe and cause a great deal more accidents than is necessary.

[EDDIE51]

No one mentioned the UK , the story is about Singapore so world wide figures are more appropriate !

[Gromit]

Eddie,
1.3 million people die in road accidents every year. Not 125 million.

[-Talbot-]

Well at least you are consistant, EDDIE.