They also park in bike lanes and pedestrian areas so I'm not holding my breath.
That being said, yeah I'm not surprised either. Riding the bus looking at drivers I'll say a solid, very solid 1/4 minimum are doing something with their phones.
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Human drivers also park there so at least they're not worse I guess?
The arsehole human parking in the bike lane can be caught and fined.
Allowing Waymo to do it normalises it and makes the issue worse.
Mney where the mouth... uhh,,, would have been is what's needed. Fines for driverless vehicles should be set at, say, four times those for vehicles with drivers, and strict liability for corporate officers for any harm caused to pedestrians, cyclists, other vehicles or drivers.
I feel like Waymos would be easier. You just send it to Google, since they're responsible for operation.
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But block intersections way more than humans. And get stuck in flood zones way more than humans. And pass stopped school busses way more than humans.
And they still have more accidents per mile than actual taxi drivers.
No, they actually have fewer total accidents per mile than actual taxi drivers. Did you read the link you posted? They are involved in 1.5 times more accidents with severe or fatal injuries per mile, but that is comparing Waymos driving in more open cities at higher speeds to taxis in the very slow speed, high traffic city of NYC where the primary use case is different. Also, the only fatal accidents (2 of them) have been the fault of other cars, not Waymos, so it's kinda unfair to include those.
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the analysis excluded minor incidents involving Waymos that would likely not have been reported to the police had a human been driving,”
I feel like this is a pretty glaring flaw in the study..... They got to redefine what they consider to be a collision and ended up negating nearly 80% of the reports. Something tells me they didn't comb through the data from human reports and do the same.
Yeah, Filipinos are decent drivers.
Waymo admits that its autopilot is often just guys from the Philippines
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That explains why they park illegally like all the time.
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When are we gonna see waymo motorbikes?
That isn't really what that article says. It says that in edge cases, remote workers (mostly in the Philippines) give additional contextual inputs to the autopilot. There are some outstanding issues with waymos, especially around getting stuck idling or infinite loops at construction sites, but really just being remotely operated is not one of them.
That's cool, can we get public transport please?
so they don't crash way mo?
I'll see myself out
And if they do they crash way mo slo
Severe doubt. Getting to decide what a "minor" accident is and exclude it...yeah, uh huh
hot take but i'm actually excited for these to come to seattle
can't get sexually harassed by a car with no driver. this is a recurring problem when i take ubers
A waymo recently locked its teenage passengers in the car because it guessed they might be underage drinking, called the cops, and delivered them to the police station
Source on this? that is insane.
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They'll also kidnap you and deliver you to the police who may or may not murder you depending on their mood.
What if you look underage but aren't? What if you take medication but waymo thinks you're doing drugs? There are thousands of scenarios that can be misinterpreted, kidnapping the rider and delivering them to a murder squad is not the solution.
Without knowing the methodology the IIHS used to arrive at its claim, I'll remain unconvinced.
How many accidents do they cause?
How often do they interfere with traffic our the standard operation of transport by just sitting there.
Waymos on YouTube getting stuck in places cars shouldn't be is about as good an example that exists that these should all be ADAS features in cars with the human incharge, and that AI should also be used as a tool and not to replace humans.
The comparison isn't fair if the human driver doesn't have similar ADAS features. But nice try Waymo.
X doubt
not hard to believe at all
waymos do silly things, but people do dangerous things more often like using their phones, get distracted, driving angry/tired, road rages at rush hour, speeding, etc
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Nope, not buying it. Ai makes mistakes way more than regular people do
You do realize those cars are not using LLMs to drive, right?
whatever type of AI they use, it definitely makes mistakes all the time
Yes, but you didn't say "make mistakes". You said AI makes way more mistakes than regular people. And that's simply not true:
Sure lol. It's not true when you use cherry picked stats, for cars that only drive in areas literally curated for them.
Seriously? People as a group suck at driving. The bar is super low. You are just going to form a random opinion on this and ignore data?
I dunno, regular people can barely handle walking sometimes. Driving is especially hard.
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