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A self-driving car should be roughly ten times safer than a human driver before it is deployed, to leave engineering margin for what nobody can predict.

Drawn from what Philip Koopman said

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  1. Philip Koopman Professor at Carnegie Mellon University who works…
    Taken together, there is an argument to be made that AVs should be safer than human drivers by about a factor of 10 (being a nice round order of magnitude number) to leave engineering margin for the above considerations.

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