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the other companies seem to have no problem following the rules and not killing people. I'm more of the mind that cars should become the second-class citizens
by andbberger 5y ago
the other companies seem to have no problem following the rules and not killing people.
I'm more of the mind that cars should become the second-class citizens they ought to be in cities and that I should be able to bike around the city without constant threat of death, that dream remains far off in american cities.
Why is that fire codes and aviation regulations are written in blood, but traffic violence is treated as a normal, necessary cost of modern life? When a biker is killed by a driver who wasn't signaling and cut them off on a right turn (as happens to me on a daily basis in SF), that should trigger immediate redesigns of intersections and streets across the city, for that was an entirely preventable death.
But nope. Go ahead and test your fundamentally flawed, unproven death machine on public roads.
I gotta say, I am really not that keen on being killed by a white tesla.
- twblalock 5y ago> the other companies seem to have no problem following the rules and not killing people. What rules did Tesla break? Also, remember that time Waymo killed a pedestrian?
- andbberger 5y agothat this is not explicitly illegal is the problem. everyone else has safety drivers and is subject to reporting requirements. waymo never killed a pedestrian
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- twblalock 5y ago> waymo never killed a pedestrian Yeah, it was Uber, my mistake. But that's an example another self-driving company that killed people. It could have easily been any of them -- they have all had accidents that could have resulted in death, and just got lucky. Tesla is not special here.
- andbberger 5y agoI think it is of questionable rationality to accept the null hypothesis between uber (0.4 miles/disengagement in 2018) and waymo/cruise (~700k miles, ~30k miles/disengagement in 2020; ~11k and 5k miles/disengagement in 2018, respectively), but reject the null hypothesis for tesla which reported....... 12 miles of self-driving in 2020.