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Not sure why this is downvoted. This definitely would have been a consideration at some point along the journey. You're naive if you think it wasn't.
by TLightful 6y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted.
This definitely would have been a consideration at some point along the journey.
You're naive if you think it wasn't.
- notatoad 6y agoI downvoted because it's the sort of flippant comment that comes up in every self-driving car discussion, and there's lots more compelling reasons that google might want to spin off waymo that a fear of bad PR when a car kills somebody. (mostly because that's how the Google X projects have always worked) Of course a waymo car will kill somebody at some point. Everybody knows it's going to happen, and there's no way google/alphabet hasn't essentially priced in that risk. If they were afraid of killing people, they wouldn't have gotten into cars in the first place.
- njarboe 6y agoThey are right to be afraid, but can balance risk and reward and not paralyzed by the fact someone will get killed.
- jshevek 6y agoExpectations are different on HN than on other sites. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html