Waymo has been in dozens of crashes. Most were not Waymo’s fault.
  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    No shit. The bar is low. Humans suck at driving. People love to throw FUD at automated driving, and it’s far from perfect, but the more we delay adoption the more lives are lost. Anti-automation on the roads is up there with anti-vaccine mentality in my mind. Fear and the incorrect assumption that “I’m not the problem, I’m a really good driver,” mentality will inevitably delay automation unnecessarily for years.

    • Eczpurt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’d probably be better to put a lot of the R&D money into improving and reinforcing public transport systems. Taking cars off the road and separating cars from pedestrians makes a bigger difference than automating driving.