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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by ageofwant on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @06:23PM (#13172259)
Yea so ? Harping on the 2% issues does not negate the benefit you have the rest of the time: It can swerve in microseconds, you cannot. How many times will your nail removal skills save you or your kids live compared to software that knows that rolling the car to the left have a 87.34 better chance of occupants survival that the head-on collision with the truck that just swerved in 0.4 seconds ago ?

Forget it, driver-less s cars will be the norm in the future. You won't be able to afford the insurance associated with a meat-driven car.

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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by walrus1066 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @06:42PM (#13172406)
My nail removal skill will prevent gridlock on the road. If an auto-car gets confused due to a 2% issue, it becomes a brick, clogging the road. If multiple auto-cars do this in a city, the result is standstill.
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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by jasonwatkinspdx on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @06:54PM (#13172515)
You make it sound like people are gonna be strapped into their autonomous vehicle like Hannibal Lector. Seriously, a couple pieces of debris are not some thing where we go "oh crap, we're done, guess the whole city will just sit here all day."
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