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A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes and saying "human drivers" are often at fault when talking about smashing up motor vehicles is just as silly.

As you can also say; Hey, did you know that 100% of deaths related with driverless cars involved software?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, except that we can then compare which is safer.

So far, when done gradually and responsibly, it turns out that software seems safer.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, clearly that must be why they fought so hard to hide their crash data

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

While I agree that data should be public, them not wanting every crash to be reported on publicly probably has something to do with the fact that mobs are burning their cars down at the present moment, even though they're statistically safer than normal drivers.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz -1 points 9 months ago

even though they’re statistically safer than normal drivers.

Safer according to Waymo data, who has a history of and is currently hiding data.