AI vs. Human Drivers

The piece contrasts a New York Times op-ed lauding autonomous vehicles as a public health breakthrough with arguments from the forthcoming book "Driving Intelligence: The Green Book," which criticizes ongoing AV testing despite fatalities and injuries. It cites a 2016 study showing that proving AV safety through real-world miles would require impractically large distances, concluding that policy will be hard to determine and that society treats AI-caused deaths differently from human-caused ones.