sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWaymo’s driverless cars crash way less often than humans: reportdriving.caexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down122cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up158arrow-down1external-linkWaymo’s driverless cars crash way less often than humans: reportdriving.casanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square47fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·1 month agonot 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
minus-squaredreamkeeper@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-21 month agoLmao the article literally admits the data is cherry picked and only applied on “a limited scale”
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoIt’s a limited scale because waymo only operates in bounded areas, not because they cherry picked the data
minus-squarekibblebits@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·1 month agoContradicts the previous articles stating the opposite. (Easy to find, I don’t provide search services. )
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·1 month agoif waymos were as bad as the average human driver they’d already be out of business
minus-squarekibblebits@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoWould they? lol. I’m not sure that’s how 2026 works.
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agofair, they’d have pivoted to data centers or something
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
Lmao the article literally admits the data is cherry picked and only applied on “a limited scale”
It’s a limited scale because waymo only operates in bounded areas, not because they cherry picked the data
Contradicts the previous articles stating the opposite. (Easy to find, I don’t provide search services. )
if waymos were as bad as the average human driver they’d already be out of business
Would they? lol. I’m not sure that’s how 2026 works.
fair, they’d have pivoted to data centers or something