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AI Cars : Saving Lives, Reducing Death Rates
A discussion of vehicle safety data and how AI-assisted systems may reduce deaths compared with vehicles that do not use those systems.
Video summary
This discussion considers whether AI-assisted vehicle systems could reduce road deaths. The speakers refer to analyses by some vehicle manufacturers comparing death rates for cars equipped with their AI systems and cars without them.
One speaker says those analyses show an improvement, then extrapolates that safer systems could save many lives. The video makes clear that this is a direction-of-travel argument, not a blanket safety guarantee for every car or driving condition. Any comparison depends on the evidence, system design, driver behaviour and the circumstances in which the vehicles operate.
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I think there's definitely um improvement in the death rate, right, of the of humans in cars in the future as far as where they're headed. You know, I think that's one thing is that they're going to save a lot of lives. So and Yeah. Go ahead. Well, we've we've seen from some of the OEMs that have analyzed the the death rates of of with cars that have their AI systems and cars that don't, right? And there's there's a definite uh improvement in in the percentage of death death rates. Anyway, you're going to ask a question.
Yeah, no.
I'd be interesting to see that because I can see that somebody that's driving uh a Tesla has probably got a few other safeties things that, you know, so on and so on, whereas there's you know, maybe there's other factors is what I'm saying that just relate to that. So, I'll be I'll be very interested to see whether it's causation or correlation.