alt Hacker News> Waymo has a lesson to learn from.
At what point can we be spared from having Waymos lessons inflicted upon us
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> At what point can we be spared from having Waymos lessons inflicted upon us
Again, we had a real event happen. Not hypothetical. What was the actual cost inflicted?
When humans can cause fewer accidents and fatalities than Waymo on average. People are still inflicting those lessons on us.
When we learn our lesson that letting companies beta test on public roads consequence free is just another cost to the rest of us so that a small number of people can enrich themselves at our expense.
Whenever they become so much a problem that they counterbalance public and private interests in having and improving robotaxis. For most people, we are nowhere near that.
In this country, if heart disease or cancer doesn't kill you, a car probably did.
Until "Waymos lessons" are killing people at that rate, I am 100% OK with a Waymo making my trips an extra 5 minutes longer every 50th trip or whatever else the real stat is.
I was curious if Waymo has even been involved with a crash that killed someone, so I looked it up. The answer is yes - there was a Tesla going 98mph in SoMa whose driver died after hitting a Waymo. Clearly the Waymo's fault!