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autoexecyesterday at 9:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

> In 5 years, after someone is eventually fatally injured you'll just jump up and say "AHA! Told you Waymos are unsafe!"

That'll depend on the circumstances. If someone is killed because of a mistake a human wouldn't have made (like driving into oncoming traffic or down a light rail track) it'll be entirely their fault. Even if they do something humans sometimes do but never should like running a red light I'd argue that it makes them unsafe. To our knowledge they've only been involved in one human fatality so far but it wasn't their fault so I don't blame them for that.


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swisniewskiyesterday at 10:57 PM

But humans do make mistakes like that (driving into oncoming traffic or driving down a light rail track).

For example, here’s a case where a human did it to avoid an ambulance:

https://www.click2houston.com/news/2012/09/18/10-injured-in-...

This guy says he was blinded by the sun:

https://kutv.com/news/local/trax-train-hits-vehicle-in-sandy

Sometimes people are drunk:

https://komonews.com/news/local/police-suspected-drunk-drive...

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estearumyesterday at 11:11 PM

It is honestly kind of funny how clearly your comments read like motivated reasoning, and then one just looks at your username.

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