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That was my point, human operators are responsible for not hitting deer yet it happens every day. The only reason it doesn't happen to people more often is that people are better at avoiding running in front of cars.



>That was my point, human operators are responsible for not hitting deer

How is this even comparable?

A deer jumping in front of a car is not the same as a person walking the bicycle slowly across several lanes (and almost making it to the other side) on a rather well-lit road.


Because the human is currently monitoring the car to not hit a deer, as other comments mentions, it can take dozens of seconds to regain full awareness.


Dozens of seconds? Have you ever even driven a car? lol


Yes, dozens of seconds. This is the scenario of "human was actually doing something entirely different because the car is self driving"

This is NOT classical reaction time.




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