sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoWaymo’s driverless cars crash way less often than humans: reportdriving.caexternal-linkmessage-square52linkfedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down127
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minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down3·2 days agonot hard to believe at all waymos do silly things, but people do dangerous things more often like using their phones, get distracted, driving angry/tired, road rages at rush hour, speeding, etc
minus-squaredreamkeeper@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 days agoLmao the article literally admits the data is cherry picked and only applied on “a limited scale”
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoIt’s a limited scale because waymo only operates in bounded areas, not because they cherry picked the data
minus-squareZarobi@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoThis is a pretty good video that goes into the intricacies of it https://youtu.be/2DOd4RLNeT4
minus-squarekibblebits@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·2 days agoContradicts the previous articles stating the opposite. (Easy to find, I don’t provide search services. )
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·2 days agoif waymos were as bad as the average human driver they’d already be out of business
minus-squarekibblebits@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoWould they? lol. I’m not sure that’s how 2026 works.
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agofair, they’d have pivoted to data centers or something
X doubt
not hard to believe at all
waymos do silly things, but people do dangerous things more often like using their phones, get distracted, driving angry/tired, road rages at rush hour, speeding, etc
Lmao the article literally admits the data is cherry picked and only applied on “a limited scale”
It’s a limited scale because waymo only operates in bounded areas, not because they cherry picked the data
This is a pretty good video that goes into the intricacies of it
https://youtu.be/2DOd4RLNeT4
Contradicts the previous articles stating the opposite. (Easy to find, I don’t provide search services. )
if waymos were as bad as the average human driver they’d already be out of business
Would they? lol. I’m not sure that’s how 2026 works.
fair, they’d have pivoted to data centers or something