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> I'm not putting my life in the hands of this software.

If you were a professional driver, you know you put your life in the hands of people right? The average person is a pretty terrible driver. I’ll take a safely trained machine all day every day.



I'm a better and safer driver than Waymo. I trust myself over software. I also trust human professional drivers over software.


The data disagrees with you, significantly. Level 5 technology is only improving, and you’ll regress over time. A waymo never loses focus or gets distracted or tired in the way humans always will.


100,000 miles as a paid professsional driver and a couple 100k more for pleasure and I never once drove into a telephone pole. But keep talking about the mirage Level 5. I can think of many snap decisions I've had to make to prevent death or serious injury, including once when someone tried to commit suicide by jumping in front of me. I seriously doubt AI ability to outperform me in those situations. You're right, humans do regress, that's why I don't drive anymore. But no matter, Waymo's goal is to put millions of American drivers out of a job and they'll do it no matter what I say. Consider me shouting from the void as I disappear along with my working driver brothers and sisters, who Alphabet couldn't care less about.

Waymo recalls driverless cars to make them less likely to drive into poles https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/13/business/waymo-recalls-driver...

This conversation is invisible since everyone downvoted it so I don't know why you bothered to comment




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