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AI vs Human Drivers — Safety, Trials, and Policy Debate

🚗 Bruce Schneier frames a public-policy dilemma: a neurosurgeon writing in the New York Times calls driverless cars a “public health breakthrough,” citing more than 39,000 US traffic fatalities and thousands of daily crash victims, while the authors of Driving Intelligence: The Green Book argue that ongoing autonomous-vehicle (AV) trials have produced deaths and should be halted and forensically reviewed. Schneier cites a 2016 paper, Driving to safety, which shows that proving AV safety by miles-driven alone would require hundreds of millions to billions of miles, making direct statistical comparison impractical. The paper argues regulators and developers must adopt alternative evidence methods and adaptive regulation because uncertainty about AV safety will persist.