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Ok so the guys and gals who we pay to save your life are saying they're getting in the way. But MLRoboCorporation(TM)(c)(r) says fuck those guys, they can go ar

by statop 3y ago

Ok so the guys and gals who we pay to save your life are saying they're getting in the way. But MLRoboCorporation(TM)(c)(r) says fuck those guys, they can go around? I think I'll side with the humans on this one, let them take control of the vehicle. I don't care how much money Kyle Vogt loses to car theft, that's not my problem. Clearly this industry needs to get regulated hard.

paul7986 3y ago
oh no dont speak ill of Ycombinator's startup bros. You will get downvoted! Loved Justin.TV and how they helped shake up the media industrty up ... all the start-up bro ethos followed there successfully helped kill and bring new media business models (all the Frasier, Seinfeld, etc 24/7 channels on Justin.TV). Awesome! Applying that same killing it here theory (Cruise trying to rapidly .. rapidly expand in many, many cities while Waymo with its WAY better track record as of late August is expanding to only one city .. Austin) is just down right deadly as we seen with Travis Kalanick's version of trying to kill it and in turn killing a pedestrian. Who cares if you kill business and in turn new business come from that .. that's awesome but killing people to kill it and win this race. Irresponsible and disgusting and again they're expanding to 5 to ten more cities (Nashville, DC, Austin, etc, etc) yet causing chaos in San Fran (Waymo is not & they have been working on this tech since 2007).
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phpisthebest 3y ago
So you will just always defer to public safety officials for everything they want and desire in the name of that safety? That seems like it would be bad idea
- statop 3y ago
  This is a strawman, try again.
  - phpisthebest 3y ago
    that was your literal statement, that public safety people only care about the people, and the big bad evil company only cares about their profits so we should only ever listen to public safety people...

by statop 3y ago

paul7986 3y ago

oh no dont speak ill of Ycombinator's startup bros. You will get downvoted! Loved Justin.TV and how they helped shake up the media industrty up ... all the start-up bro ethos followed there successfully helped kill and bring new media business models (all the Frasier, Seinfeld, etc 24/7 channels on Justin.TV). Awesome! Applying that same killing it here theory (Cruise trying to rapidly .. rapidly expand in many, many cities while Waymo with its WAY better track record as of late August is expanding to only one city .. Austin) is just down right deadly as we seen with Travis Kalanick's version of trying to kill it and in turn killing a pedestrian. Who cares if you kill business and in turn new business come from that .. that's awesome but killing people to kill it and win this race. Irresponsible and disgusting and again they're expanding to 5 to ten more cities (Nashville, DC, Austin, etc, etc) yet causing chaos in San Fran (Waymo is not & they have been working on this tech since 2007).

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phpisthebest 3y ago

So you will just always defer to public safety officials for everything they want and desire in the name of that safety? That seems like it would be bad idea

statop 3y ago
This is a strawman, try again.
- phpisthebest 3y ago
  that was your literal statement, that public safety people only care about the people, and the big bad evil company only cares about their profits so we should only ever listen to public safety people...