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 not_a_moth on Thursday July 04, 2019 @02:57AM (#20352224)

If you're a top 1% driver, defensive, experienced etc., then putting yourself in an AV means assuming greater risk.

If you're in the latter group, you would be rightly horrified each time there's an AV accident.

(the "on average across the population it will be safer" doesn't mean anything for drivers who are already well above average)

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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by taneq on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:00AM (#20352538)

True, assuming you're in top-1% condition. Even a usually top-1% driver is going to be far worse off if they're tired, or distracted, or had a fight with their partner that morning, etc.

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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger... by unionpivo on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:27AM (#20352678)

Problem is that about half of my friends think they are in that top 1%

Besides we need solution that works for 80% of the people. there will always be some edge cases

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