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Re:Waymo achieves 92% reduction in bodily injury claims comp... by Aeolun on Friday December 20, 2024 @05:28AM (#42469844)
> Maybe they will prove to be so reliable that you don't need to worry about them. You can just reliably assume and predict their behavior as animate objects about the same as you do for inanimate objects.

This seems to be what is happening. There was a comment here by some user not too long ago that said they deliberately drive in front of the Waymo’s because they trust them to slow down.

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Re:Waymo achieves 92% reduction in bodily injury claims comp... by bmicraft on Friday December 20, 2024 @07:12AM (#42470449)
You can also do that with human drivers and it will work for a while. The question is how often it doesn't work. A single person driving in front of a Waymo a couple of times can't determine that with any statistical significance.
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