# Self driving cars are still decades away **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 10, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-driving-cars-are-still-decades-away/798499 "2017-10-10T17:38:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 997
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-driving-cars-are-still-decades-away/798499/997 "2022-11-23T22:22:48Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > AI is terrible at this kind of fuzzy situation and you can count on them doing very dumb things (from our perspective) on occasion Yes, this is pretty much exactly my experience with self driving. I always (and I’m sure in this thread) describe the AI as a teenage driver. Perfectly competent at many car control and rule following aspects of driving, but terrible at decision making and strategic planning. (Aside, and related to [the recent dash cam thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videos-where-the-dashcam-owner-is-the-stupid-one/973343/3): The number of dash cam videos where based on the drivers verbalization or horn they see the problem ahead, but then behave as to make it worse, humans may be good at prediction, but are _also_ frequently bad at making decisions on the correct behavior.) > [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > If we go from 35,000 traffic deaths per year caused by fallible humans to 1,000 per year caused by AI, we’ll never tolerate the AI. I think this has been discussed in this thread and others, but that is also something I’m worried about. I’m hoping that the recent confirmation of the safety of ADAS will let the safety systems creep in and reduce auto casualties, without scaring people away from them. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-driving-cars-are-still-decades-away/798499)._