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Re:Waymo achieves 92% reduction in bodily injury claims comp... by mstade on Friday December 20, 2024 @05:23AM (#42469808)
This makes a lot of sense, also for pedestrians and other drivers. Having seen these things live in action, it creeped me out to see an empty drivers seat.
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Re:Waymo achieves 92% reduction in bodily injury claims comp... by Qem on Friday December 20, 2024 @06:07AM (#42470095)
> Having seen these things live in action, it creeped me out to see an empty drivers seat.

I wonder if the safety gains could be just due to people being creeped out around them, and behaving more cautiously. Perhaps results would be different if they carried mannequins simulating a real driver in the wheel.

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Re:Waymo achieves 92% reduction in bodily injury claims comp... by zahlman on Friday December 20, 2024 @11:31AM (#42472478)
Couldn't they just put a passenger in that seat?
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Re:Waymo achieves 92% reduction in bodily injury claims comp... by Brian_K_White on Friday December 20, 2024 @05:18PM (#42475643)
What would that accomplish? The passenger is not operating the vehicle. If the cyclist and the passenger make eye contact, so what?
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Re:Waymo achieves 92% reduction in bodily injury claims comp... by Aeolun on Friday December 20, 2024 @05:29AM (#42469847)
Need to give them led matrix front lights. The cars will be much less scary if they regularly blink.
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