Fixing hardware failures in software is literally how quantum computing is supposed to work, and it’s clearly not a silly idea.
Generally speaking, there’s a lot of appeal to intuition here, but I don’t find it convincing. This isn’t good for Tokyo property prices? Well maybe, but how good of a heuristic is that when Mechagodzilla is on its way regardless.
A human driver does not make 100 “life or death decisions” per mile. They make many more decisions, most of which can easily be corrected, if wrong, by another decision.
The statistic is misleading though in that it includes people who text, drunk drivers, tired drivers. The performance of a well rested human driver that’s paying attention to the road is much, much higher than that. And that’s really the bar that matters for self driving car, you don’t want a car that is doing better than the average driver who—hey you never know—could be a drunk.