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Re:Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed I... by leftbehind on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:10PM (#41039852)
The Tesla owner in the article intentionally rammed his car repeatedly into a Waymo then publicly said Waymos kept hitting his car???

How stupid do you have to be to do this when both your vehicle AND the other vehicle continuously record at all times from every angle and stream it to the cloud?

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Re:Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed I... by genocidicbunny on Monday July 22, 2024 @06:41PM (#41040608)
Yeah, but when it's a crime of passion like that, thinking goes out the window. I doubt the driver of the Tesla woke up in the morning and decided that today they were going to ram a Waymo.

Really of you're going to mess with autonomous cars which by definition are a rolling camera, you gotta be more discreet. Sprinkle a few caltrops out your pant leg while you walk in front of it or something.

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Re:Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed I... by kazinator on Monday July 22, 2024 @09:40PM (#41041718)
> I doubt the driver of the Tesla woke up in the morning and decided that today they were going to ram a Waymo.

Of course, not; probably more like, he fantasized about it for months, and it was a new version of some old fantasy he's been carrying carried since adolescence.

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Re:Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed I... by hu3 on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:24PM (#41039976)
Also not smart to provoke a lawsuit from a company with infinite money and bored lawyers.
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Re:Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed I... by JumpCrisscross on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:39PM (#41040097)
> not smart to provoke a lawsuit

It’s not smart to ram things with your car. That should frankly result in a licence suspension.

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Re:Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed I... by hu3 on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:44PM (#41040142)
That is also not smart at all. And I agree with licence suspension.
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