It also showcases the great thing about self-driving cars. Even though accidents will happen, when it does there will be plenty of sensor data and logs which can be examined to find the exact cause in a post-mortem. An improvement to the software can then be made, and millions of cars deployed can all effectively learn from a single accident.
With humans, the amount of knowledge gained and the collective improvement of driving behavior from a single accident is low, and each accident mostly provides some data points to tracked statistics. With machines, great systematic improvements are made possible over time such that the remaining edge cases will become increasingly improbable.
What does post-mortem mean in this context? The software one (after an accident) or the human one (after death)? I think It's crazy that the word gets back the original meaning..
With humans, the amount of knowledge gained and the collective improvement of driving behavior from a single accident is low, and each accident mostly provides some data points to tracked statistics. With machines, great systematic improvements are made possible over time such that the remaining edge cases will become increasingly improbable.