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Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar” (road.cc)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/36974628

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[–] 116 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Expecting people to not sabotage the rolling death machines "too high a bar"

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    But Waymo taxis are demonstrably safer than human drivers.

    Maybe you're thinking of Tesla who's significantly worse than human drivers because they ditched LIDAR.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    But Waymo taxis are demonstrably safer than human drivers.

    ... says research paid for by Waymo.

    I know critical thinking skills are in short supply these days, but come on.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I made a previous post about this. Anecdotally, I've seen numerous human drivers hit pedestrians in SF. Number of Waymos hitting humans that I have seen in local news or in person, none.

    They are very very conservative with their driving in SF but can still navigate SFs complex streets (I.e. when a doordash is parallel parked theyre very good at driving around them).

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's why you have to standardize the statistics.

    Humans are responsible for more total pedestrian crashes than robo taxis simply because there's more human drivers on the road.

    Although the standardized statistics agree with your anecdotal observations in this case.

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