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A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Humans are literally responsible for all preventable things in society. This take is also "dumb as fuck"

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Humans are literally responsible for all preventable things in society.

Did I says "humans" or did I say "human drivers"? We're not talking about liquidating all humans, we're talking about replacing them at the task of driving.

Totally no other spots in society where machines have replaced formerly human done tasks to make work safer, what a crazy idea that is right! /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes and saying "human drivers" are often at fault when talking about smashing up motor vehicles is just as silly.

As you can also say; Hey, did you know that 100% of deaths related with driverless cars involved software?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, except that we can then compare which is safer.

So far, when done gradually and responsibly, it turns out that software seems safer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, clearly that must be why they fought so hard to hide their crash data

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

While I agree that data should be public, them not wanting every crash to be reported on publicly probably has something to do with the fact that mobs are burning their cars down at the present moment, even though they're statistically safer than normal drivers.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

even though they’re statistically safer than normal drivers.

Safer according to Waymo data, who has a history of and is currently hiding data.