Well, it’s likely the DOGE cuts haven’t shown their impact just yet.

Of roughly 30 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration workers dismissed in February as part of Musk’s campaign to shrink the federal workforce, many were in the “office of vehicle automation safety,” — Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE

Personally, I’m sort of hoping for the same karma as when Elaine Chao was secretary of transportation and let Tesla roll out an untested and confusing shifting system, which later helped kill her sister.

pretty sure Waymo is cool with not taking safety seriously, though. Profits, amirite?

EDIT: JAYSUS this must be my most edited comment to get right.

taking a ride from RIP Cruise sounds like a fanfuckingtastic way to die

The nearest person with skin anything darker than 'never had a tan', as is custom (or more recently, anyone not cisgendered, heterosexual, and male)

In China you can exit from a 12 lane freeway into a creek bed.

The first clip is clearly not somewhere cars should be. The other two... Trenches? Are construction areas clearly. I'm not sure what you mean?

Fell of the back of a van

Van fell on his back

Self driving truck Splatoon

is Donny headed for a visit to vaChina anytime soon?

I was in my 40s when I realized that some people never experience fallen leaves in autumn. Snow, sure, I knew snow couldn't happen everywhere, but it never occurred to me that the same places that never have snow likely also never see the leaves fall from their trees.

Trucks are loud, and if they don't hear scraping, they're not going to hear shouting.

To be clear, I'm not trying to defend bad autonomous vehicles here - just pointing out that the dangers exist with any large vehicle. This is something that happens with trucks, so people should be aware.

*Since you don't seem to believe it's possible, here's a news report of an incident from 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q22sQndSjEA