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Waymo CEO Says Society Is Ready for One of Its Cars to Kill Someone (futurism.com)

submitted 1 month ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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What an odd thing to say...

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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Not that odd. Death by car is easily accepted by society. They are "accidents" and a "necessary evil" for society to function.

There's around a million people dying from cars every year and we just shrug and normalize them. Human or not, we just have to have cars and "accidents" are just that.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in 2016. That is, one person is killed every 26 seconds on average.

Nobody cares about cars killing people and animals. So she's probably right.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

More so when you take her actual statement in context: that they're actually reducing deaths by being safer. The comments on lemmy are turning out to be just as biased and ungrounded in reality as they were on Reddit.

Waymo robotaxis are so safe that, according to the company’s data, its driverless vehicles are involved in 91 percent fewer crashes compared to human-operated vehicles.

And yet the the company is bracing for the first time when a Waymo does kill somebody — a moment its CEO says society will accept, in exchange for access to its relatively safer driverless cars.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Waymo robotaxis are so safe that, according to the company’s data, its driverless vehicles are involved in 91 percent fewer crashes compared to human-operated vehicles.

Wow, you think the "company's data" is a trustworthy source? Where is your critical thinking skills?

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They released actual data in line with the NHTSA regulations. If the data is falsified that'd be illegal. Do you have a reason to think otherwise?

https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-order-crash-reporting

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If the data is falsified that’d be illegal.

Oh no! It would be illegal!

And what would be the punishment if it was found out that they released illegal data? A fine that could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars? On top of their tens of millions of dollars of profits?

Do you have a reason to think otherwise?

Yes, they are directly incentivized to either push their data in a biased direction or outright falsify their numbers, in order to facilitate the marketing strategy of these taxis being a "safe" technology, and increase their profit margin.

Fuck... have we learned nothing from the tobacco industry?!

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