Waymo, the autonomous driving tech firm whose so-called ‘robo-taxis’ are now roaming the streets of London, has allegedly told cycling campaigners that expecting their driverless cars to respect cycle lanes is “too high a bar” – because their customers want to be dropped off in them.But Waymo has denied making such a claim, instead pointing ... Read more
I made a previous post about this. Anecdotally, I’ve seen numerous human drivers hit pedestrians in SF. Number of Waymos hitting humans that I have seen in local news or in person, none.
They are very very conservative with their driving in SF but can still navigate SFs complex streets (I.e. when a doordash is parallel parked theyre very good at driving around them).
I don’t know why you are trying to defend human drivers so much. I share the road whit them every day and I hope to fucking God they all get replaced with robots soon.
Expecting people to not sabotage the rolling death machines “too high a bar”
I was just going to say that the roads are for humans, not machines, but this is a better idea.
All I’m gonna say is if you put a traffic cone on the hood of one it will refuse to move because they avoid cones at all costs.
But Waymo taxis are demonstrably safer than human drivers.
Maybe you’re thinking of Tesla who’s significantly worse than human drivers because they ditched LIDAR.
The only groups saying that are Waymo and Google.
… says research paid for by Waymo.
I know critical thinking skills are in short supply these days, but come on.
That’s not critical thinking. It’s making an assumption based on bias.
I made a previous post about this. Anecdotally, I’ve seen numerous human drivers hit pedestrians in SF. Number of Waymos hitting humans that I have seen in local news or in person, none.
They are very very conservative with their driving in SF but can still navigate SFs complex streets (I.e. when a doordash is parallel parked theyre very good at driving around them).
That’s why you have to standardize the statistics.
Humans are responsible for more total pedestrian crashes than robo taxis simply because there’s more human drivers on the road.
Although the standardized statistics agree with your anecdotal observations in this case.
I don’t know why you are trying to defend human drivers so much. I share the road whit them every day and I hope to fucking God they all get replaced with robots soon.
I’m not trying to defend human drivers; I’m all for all human drivers being replaced.
Sofas are even safer, but sofas should fuck off out of the bike lane too. And out of the bus lane too, but that’s never going to happen.