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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by swamp40 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @05:13PM (#13171626)
They don't need to make them foolproof.

They just have to make them safer than human drivers.

And these days with everyone swerving as they text, the bar isn't exactly set very high.

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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by legolas2412 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:23PM (#13172676)
They need to make it safer than average driver being adviced by driver assistance systems.

That system can fix the negatives of human drivers without affecting the advantages of humans over machines

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