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vlovich123yesterday at 7:20 PM1 replyview on HN

A) I see no evidence this is creating death or misery. Autonomous still seems safer.

B) even if in this one aspect they remain status quo, overall it would still be an improvement.


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SpicyLemonZestyesterday at 7:25 PM

The source article describes an incident where a cyclist was seriously injured after Waymo's cyclist detection system failed while it was parked in a bike lane, allowing the passenger to hit her with the door. I don't think this represents some terrible sin where Waymo executives should all go to prison, but I do think we can reasonably expect and if necessary demand that Waymo take action to prevent similar incidents in the future.

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