Waymo – Dallas Open to All

Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All by ChadNauseam on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @08:38PM (#49177199)

Sarcastic and self-satisfied comments like this are uninteresting IMO. The GP comment is talking about reducing parking requirements for new development, and parking requirements are probably some of the least efficient use of land imaginable. But he shouldn't talk about that because it'd be better if every city all across america suddenly had public transit tomorrow? It's like if a city in europe was talking about setting up a cooling station in a town square during a heat wave, and someone condescendingly commented "god, I love how europeans will do anything but install air conditioning." It's just not that easy and one doesn't preclude the other

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Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All by hocuspocus on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @08:47PM (#49177257)

Many European countries do install AC actually, poor ones at that, so it'd be a valid point because yes, it's that easy.

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Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All by thundercleeze on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @10:08PM (#49177775)

You're avoiding the point and wrong in assuming the analogy is incorrect. The US has around 1/5th the heat related deaths that Europe does despite being hotter, more often and mostly of European background. https://maartenboudry.substack.com/p/how-europe-became-the-w...

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Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All by stratom on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:55AM (#49178720)

Nice graphs, but these numbers are not reflecting the reality. As both count heat deaths differently. Europe does calculate it based on excess mortality studies and US only counts them if it is listed as contributing cause on the death certificate. With similar statistics, US numbers are several times higher. And as Europe has an older population, rates are likely higher, but the real difference is much smaller.

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Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All by latency-guy2 on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:04AM (#49179121)

> With similar statistics, US numbers are several times higher. And as Europe has an older population, rates are likely higher, but the real difference is much smaller.

Cool, so if you have the numbers or graphs, paste a link

I of course believe you're lying. Probably out of the standard xenophobia.

It wouldn't make sense considering average US household infrastructure vs average EU household infrastructure so I sincerely doubt you're able to prove it, or whoever you're going to cite as proof.

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Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All by orwin on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @08:27AM (#49181886)

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-lif...

Think about it.

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Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All by latency-guy2 on Thursday August 06, 2026 @12:14AM (#49192350)

What do you think this link is proving actually? Its absolutely irrelevant to heat deaths, so nothing from either you or stratom lying.

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Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All by orwin on Thursday August 06, 2026 @07:46PM (#49204202)

Gp said that the way heat deaths were reported in Europe (statistical analysis: additional mortality during heatwaves) and in the US (individual analysis: autopsy) makes the two incomparable.

I'm just making a note about life expectancy in the US and in Europe (which are both calculated the same way). I admit I was in teaching mode, and should have been explicit instead. If heat deaths had an oversized effect on Europeans, you should be able to see it in the graphs in summer 2023 and 2025, and not in the US (to a certain degree: US have to catch up like 5 years, so it's not an apple to apple comparison, but close enough)

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Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All by hocuspocus on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @06:35AM (#49180873)

You're just supporting my point.

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Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All by xeromal on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @09:51PM (#49177671)

Missing the forest for the trees

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