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"All bad drivers are bad in different ways, but all good drivers are good in the same way".

I accept that as a plausible hypothesis to work off of and see how far it goes, but I would not bank on it as truth.

I'll give another example, I think a significant portion of the time, people roll through stop signs (we'll say, 25% of the time? intuitive guess). I do it myself quite often. This is because not all intersections are built the same - some intersections have no obstacles anywhere near them and you can tell that duh, there's no cars coming up at the same time as me. Other intersections are quite occluded by trees and what not.

I'm fine with humans using judgement on these, but I would not trust whatever the statistical machine ends up generalizing to. I do not think rolling a stop sign makes you a 'bad' driver (depending on the intersection). Still, if I knew I was teaching a machine how to drive, I would not want it to be rolling stop signs.



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