Waymo, a spinoff from Google, is expanding its autonomous vehicles rapidly in the face of competition from Tesla’s planned robotaxi service.
  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Good luck surviving AI taxis at high speed, both for the passengers and the people in the cars around them.

      • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        19 hours ago

        Given the shit those AI driven cars do on the road, I’d rather drive with a human driver. It’s most likely way safer.

        • Perspectivist@feddit.ukEnglish
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          10 hours ago

          If there were a news article for every time a human driver did something extremely dumb behind the wheel, like there is for when an AI driver does, you’d never see those articles about self-driving cars - the feed would be completely flooded with stories about the stupid things human drivers do.

          • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 hours ago

            And that’s because for every robot taxi there are literally millions of human drivers.

            • Perspectivist@feddit.ukEnglish
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              9 hours ago

              And thus it’s newsworthy when they do something stupid which then skews your perception of how safe and reliable they actually are. Deaths caused by self-driving vehicles are extremely rare.

  • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    As much as people want to believe self driving cars are a deathtrap, the reality is, just like flights, they’ve proven to be safer by the numbers - much fewer accidents per mile - than human drivers. It’s the giving away control part that people have a problem with. People don’t feel safe when they’re not the one in control, and when they’ve been mercilessly hammered with bad news and warnings about technology rebelling, it plays into their fears, and magnifies a smalll concern into a world ending problem.

    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      I have used Waymo 11 times now in the Los Angeles area and only once did I have an issue. The issue was turning left when people were blocking the intersection but it could still go around them. It wouldn’t turn and it waited through 2 light cycles.

  • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    I used Waymo half a dozen times or so when traveling to San Francisco this year.

    The experience was actually quite good. The cars arrive within a minute or two, they’re clean and high-end (for what amounts to a taxi), and you can set up the atmosphere according to your mood. The driving was smooth and uneventful.

    Unless they raise the prices significantly, I would continue to choose Waymo over human drivers.