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An unlicensed driver in the Mission plowed into me on my motorcycle because he panicked and slammed on the gas. Cruise cars, conversely, generally result in cl

An unlicensed driver in the Mission plowed into me on my motorcycle because he panicked and slammed on the gas. Cruise cars, conversely, generally result in close calls due to aborted lane changes, cutting me off, or absurd double parking, but I can safely assume that a Cruise car will sit at a stop sign for minutes on end of other drivers don't give it a turn. Cruise vehicles operate like over-cautious student drivers, dangerously lacking assertiveness and commitment. Basically, if the Mission is your bar for quality, we may as well let elementary school kids drive. Nonetheless, Cruise vehicles for into that tapestry quite nicely. Unless I'm going to the Mission, it's best to avoid it altogether.

bluGill 3y ago
Assertiveness is a bad thing in drivers. Sure you wait longer for others to do the right thing, but you also don't force crashes because of your bad driving.
- bombcar 3y ago
  It’s more expectedness. I find CA drivers to be very assertive, meaning they will accelerate to pass you while joining the freeway; in the Midwest people will slow down when merging to be polite, which causes many more issues.
  - admax88qqq 3y ago
    Neither of those is assertiveness IMO
  - whimsicalism 3y ago
    Shows how subjective it is - from my Boston/DC perspective, CA drivers are ridiculously diffident
bombcar 3y ago
You also have the situation where an assumed perfect car that drives exactly as you expect, but once in a million goes just kills you - is likely to be much less annoying (unless you’re dead) than a car that every single time you interact with it does weird things, even though it never kills you at all
- lamontcg 3y ago
  Every day you're probably taking one-in-a-million risks where a drunk driver in an Escalade could randomly kill you. Either you get T-boned when it runs a red light at >60 mph or it drives off the road and snaps off one of those breakaway light poles and flattens you as a pedestrian.
- panarky 3y ago
  >>>> Current driverless cars are not even capable of ... If Brand A has single-digit massive fuckups per ten million miles driven, while Brand B has quintuple-digit massive fuckups per ten million miles driven, it's weird to argue that all brands are massively fucking up so much worse than humans.

bluGill 3y ago

Assertiveness is a bad thing in drivers. Sure you wait longer for others to do the right thing, but you also don't force crashes because of your bad driving.

bombcar 3y ago
It’s more expectedness. I find CA drivers to be very assertive, meaning they will accelerate to pass you while joining the freeway; in the Midwest people will slow down when merging to be polite, which causes many more issues.
- admax88qqq 3y ago
  Neither of those is assertiveness IMO
- whimsicalism 3y ago
  Shows how subjective it is - from my Boston/DC perspective, CA drivers are ridiculously diffident

bombcar 3y ago

You also have the situation where an assumed perfect car that drives exactly as you expect, but once in a million goes just kills you - is likely to be much less annoying (unless you’re dead) than a car that every single time you interact with it does weird things, even though it never kills you at all

lamontcg 3y ago
Every day you're probably taking one-in-a-million risks where a drunk driver in an Escalade could randomly kill you. Either you get T-boned when it runs a red light at >60 mph or it drives off the road and snaps off one of those breakaway light poles and flattens you as a pedestrian.
panarky 3y ago
>>>> Current driverless cars are not even capable of ... If Brand A has single-digit massive fuckups per ten million miles driven, while Brand B has quintuple-digit massive fuckups per ten million miles driven, it's weird to argue that all brands are massively fucking up so much worse than humans.