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Originally Posted by tinypenis
Worldwide, 1.25 million people per year die in car crashes. So are more people going to die now? And if so, why? Is sleeping in a self driving car more dangerous than falling asleep at the wheel in a Camry?
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Have you driven the new Camrys with "driver assist?" They piss me off. You'll be driving down the highway when someone passes you and it feels like you're being blown across the lane by a strong gust of wind. The computer driving is compensating for a car being by you. And if you get too close to the vehicle in front of you it presses the brake. So a car passing you on the highway may trigger the brakes which triggers the cruise control to disengage.
But to answer your question, you're likely safer being asleep in a SDC. Hopefully, in the long run less people will die.