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Waymo says insurance data shows its driverless cars are safer than humans

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https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/googles-waymo-safety-study-on-driverless-cars/3311188/

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  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If a person ran over a pedestrian and sat there on top of them until the fire department lifted the car, they would be banned from driving for a while too.

    It doesn’t matter how safe they were before.

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    • huginn@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean the best thing for a human to do once they’ve run over another human is not to run them over with 2 more tires.

      Sitting on top is empirically correct in the shitty situation.

      I’m not familiar with the exact reason why they were hit in the first place: that’s likely where the criticisms of self driving cars should be though, unless this was someone with a death wish darting into traffic… Which I highly doubt.

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