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Re:New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making s... by SoftTalker on Friday May 02, 2025 @09:31AM (#43869509)
Once pedestrians and cyclists figure out that Waymo cars will always stop or avoid them they will start ignoring crosswalks and signals and just cross or cut in front of them.
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Re:New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making s... by xixixao on Friday May 02, 2025 @09:44AM (#43869667)
Which would be wonderful? (assuming all cars have similar tech at that point)

Basically every street could be a shared space like Exhibition Road[0]. Making the city optimized for cars is a relatively recent development in the history of cities. I say this as a car owner and driver.

[0] https://www.udg.org.uk/publications/articles/exhibition-road...

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Re:New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making s... by gs17 on Friday May 02, 2025 @01:11PM (#43872422)
That already happens all the time where I am, so I guess it would at least be safer.
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