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.
Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time
Submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@digipres.cafe to technology@lemmy.zip
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Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 day ago
return2ozma@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
inb4 duckduckgo “waymo freeway disable”
nucleative@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Good luck surviving AI taxis at high speed, both for the passengers and the people in the cars around them.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Explain how that is any different from a crash involving all humans.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Liability.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 day 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.