Waymo achieves 92% reduction in bodily injury claims compared to human drivers

Re:Waymo achieves 92% reduction in bodily injury claims comp... by Mawr on Friday December 20, 2024 @07:00PM (#42476359)

> The world’s largest rail system, period.

I despise this way of arguing. Laying down x length of rail track is not a difficult problem whatsoever. Such a crude metric is entirely insufficient to back up an argument about how great American railways supposedly are.

What's the ticket cost for the passengers compared to other countries? Average train delay? Cancellation rate? Speed? Death rate? The argument is not looking so hot anymore, right? Then stop it with the irrelevant statistics of rail track length.

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Re:Waymo achieves 92% reduction in bodily injury claims comp... by JumpCrisscross on Friday December 20, 2024 @07:33PM (#42476521)

> Laying down x length of rail track is not a difficult problem whatsoever

First by track and third by tonnage (after China and Russia).

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Re:Waymo achieves 92% reduction in bodily injury claims comp... by Dalewyn on Monday December 23, 2024 @03:05PM (#42497190)

>Laying down x length of rail track is not a difficult problem whatsoever.

It actually is. Japan's new maglev shinkansen line is stalling because they can't get land rights to lay rail through.[1]

An even more blasphemous example is California's high speed rail project which never accomplishes anything, but I'm pretty sure that also suffers from a severe case of legalized money laundering.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen#Shiz...

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