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Re:S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are... by aluminum96 on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:00PM (#36732051)
Waymo and Cruise won't actually release comprehensive data. So anecdotes are all we have to go by... and they don't look particularly good. These are egregious driving mistakes that a human driver would almost never make.

- https://twitter.com/desertflyer/status/1677464706251128832

- https://twitter.com/flrent/status/1677483882109882368

Everyone needs to experience these things for themselves before unleashing them on the public. I want them to work, but in their current state, they are an absolute menace.

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Re:S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are... by Zanni on Friday July 14, 2023 @10:50PM (#36732724)
As a sometime pedestrian, I can tell you that those are the sorts of mistakes human drivers make all the time.
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Re:S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are... by pms on Saturday July 15, 2023 @11:35PM (#36743324)
Are you advocating for normalization of mistakes and bad driving practices? If self-driving corresponds to bad drivers, then is it useful?
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Re:S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are... by parshimers on Saturday July 15, 2023 @03:26AM (#36734429)
That’s really awful. These kind of incidents need to be investigated. Whatever situation caused the car to just run into the path of a pedestrian in a crosswalk can’t be allowed.
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Re:S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are... by sagarm on Saturday July 15, 2023 @01:07PM (#36738879)
That's the wonderful thing. Stuff like this happens to me when I'm in foot and there's no way a human drivers would be held accountable.

AVs on the other hand have enough scrutiny the behavior will be fixed.

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Re:S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are... by divan on Saturday July 15, 2023 @03:32AM (#36734461)
In some countries that's the default mode of interaction between human drivers and human pedestrians.
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Re:S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are... by heyoni on Saturday July 15, 2023 @05:02AM (#36734946)
I thought all incidents were tracked by the dmv and publicly available. Unless you mean it’s not comprehensive enough…if so, what does that mean?
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