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Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board (futurism.com)
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"This is it. We're dead. We're going to die right here in the Waymo."

This combined with another recent article from some insiders at Tesla saying, along the lines, "You couldn't pay me to let one of these things drive me somewhere."

And yet I still know people who are just so chuffed about "never having to drive again."

EDIT: Comments have pointed out that this story is, at best, overblown and semi-fabricated otherwise. Take it with a massive grain of salt. But feel free to discuss self-driving, waymo, etc in the comments!

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

It was probably about Teslas given the state of Tesla's "self driving" feature.

Still, given everything I've heard about how Waymos react to novel situations, I'm not too keen on trusting my life to them either.

[–] Folstar@lemmus.org 2 points 6 hours ago

In my limited experience they all suck. I was driving a new Ford with "driver assist" and it decided to nearly kill everyone in the immediate area while driving through a construction zone. The transition from my driving to the vehicle taking over felt similar to the time my power steering (instant horror) went out and the transition from vehicle misreading the situation to my somewhat panicked regaining control felt like performing a highly illegal driving manuever. I'm singling out Ford because that was the vehicle make, but I'm fairly certain the technology itself is undercooked. I'll be sticking with my ancient vehicle as long as possible and maybe go buy something with a tape deck or 8-track next.

[–] TheGreatRapsBeat@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Yet. Trust your life to them… yet. All it takes is ALL vehicles to eventually be autonomous, and then you never have to worry about loss of life or injury. If all vehicles followed every rule to a “T,” there would be no issues.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I mean, if there are no humans on the road they won't be dying there. Doesn't seem like it would be very good for us, though, to no longer be allowed to travel.

[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 2 points 5 hours ago

When you look at all the edge cases, road rules are not 100% consistent. They rely on human judgement to manage the (rare) ambiguous situations, such as a misaligned road intersection. With ever vehicules following every rules to a T, there would still be issues.

[–] Unstoppable_Flop@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

There will always be idiot pedestrians and bicyclists, what about those?