Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passengers in self-driving cars

Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by jancsika on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @09:29PM (#20350727)

> Like with Tesla, every accident and injury caused by a Waymo vehicle is going recieve disproportionate media coverage and subsequent public backlash.

Explain the universe where humans are rational enough to give "proportionate" attention to tech as novel as self-driving cars, yet irrational enough to have preferred private car ownership over mass transit in the first place.

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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by rayiner on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:18AM (#20351471)

Fun fact: the U.S. has among the shortest commute times in the entire OECD, because we rely more on point-to-point private car ownership and less on mass transit: https://www.oecd.org/els/family/LMF2_6_Time_spent_travelling...

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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by conanbatt on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @10:29PM (#20351006)

Why irrational?

Cabs are SO convenient, and public transportation has all kinds of issues world-wide. Buenos Aires, for example, has subsidized metro (about 0.50U$S per ticket) vs a non-subsidized uber (5U$S per ride~) and still the experience is so much better and convenient and reliable that 5U$S is really worth it.

I think that the ride-hailing revolution is a classic case of great microeconomics.

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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by robotresearcher on Thursday July 04, 2019 @02:37AM (#20352111)

Uber rides are subsidized by investors.

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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by conanbatt on Thursday July 04, 2019 @09:44AM (#20354549)

Even better, rich people giving free money to drivers and riders world-wide is one the most fantastic charity project in the world.

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