>I don't think it's easy to beat the mean human driver and to demonstrate with solid data that you've done so.
Agreed. I should have written "relatively easy."
> Any self-driving automobile technology that doesn't have at least 1 billion vehicle miles of data is in no position to claim that it is safer than human drivers and less likely to kill people.
The circumstances under which those miles are driven (e.g. road type, location, weather, time of day, etc.) also have to be consistent with circumstances under which humans are driving. 10 billion autonomous vehicle miles driven only on highways in broad daylight is a worthless point of comparison, whereas 500 million miles driven across a variety of conditions representative of the full human driving population is worth a lot more.
Agreed. I should have written "relatively easy."
> Any self-driving automobile technology that doesn't have at least 1 billion vehicle miles of data is in no position to claim that it is safer than human drivers and less likely to kill people.
The circumstances under which those miles are driven (e.g. road type, location, weather, time of day, etc.) also have to be consistent with circumstances under which humans are driving. 10 billion autonomous vehicle miles driven only on highways in broad daylight is a worthless point of comparison, whereas 500 million miles driven across a variety of conditions representative of the full human driving population is worth a lot more.