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Re:Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in ... by sebzim4500 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:41PM (#46816284)
>People's standards for when they're willing to cede control over their lives both as the passenger and the pedestrian in the situation to a machine are higher than a human.

Are they? It is now clear that Tesla FSD is much worse than a human driver and yet there has been basically no attempt by anyone in government to stop them.

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Re:Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in ... by deceptionatd on Thursday January 29, 2026 @06:22PM (#46818326)
> basically no attempt by anyone in government to stop them.

No one in the _US_ government. Note that European governments and China haven't approved it in the first place.

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Re:Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in ... by fragmede on Thursday January 29, 2026 @06:32PM (#46818413)
FSD is already better than at least one class of drivers. If FSD is engaged and the driver passes out, FSD will pull over to the side of the road and stop. And before we leap to conclusions that it only helps in the case of drunk drivers who shouldn't be driving in the first place (which, they shouldn't be), random strokes and seizures happen to people all the time.
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Re:Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in ... by tmostak on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:15PM (#46818892)
Do you have data to back this claim up, specifically with HW4 (most recent hardware) and FSD software releases?
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