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I’ve been nearly hit by a Waymo as a pedestrian when the thing could see me well before it passed. I hate that they use giant SUVs, really inappropriate car fo

I’ve been nearly hit by a Waymo as a pedestrian when the thing could see me well before it passed. I hate that they use giant SUVs, really inappropriate car for small city streets even if people love SUVs.

londons_explore 3y ago
If this ever happens to you or anyone else here, drop them a message with the date/time/place that it happened, and they will watch the footage and probably adjust stuff to not be scary in the future. Without human feedback, it's really hard to program a machine to understand "scary", even if the machine has calculated that it won't hit you. https://waymo.com/contact/ https://waymo.com/contact/ is the place to go.
- blub 3y ago
  You’re subtly gaslighting the parent poster by implying the car couldn’t have hit them and that it was just being “scary”.
  - hoseja 3y ago
    Well, has it hit them? Fully automated intersection would be very "scary" for a slow meatbag, yet without accidents.
__loam 3y ago
Waymo uses pretty small jaguar crossovers. Zoox uses suvs.
- choppaface 3y ago
  The Jaguar iPace is a full 4-door SUV, not a hatchback or a Rav4. Just because the rear hatch tapers down doesn't make the car smaller from a safety standpoint. Jaguar iPace: 4800lbs, 79inch wide, 183 inches long Pacifica: 4500lbs, 79inch wide, 204 inches long Toyota Highlander: 4400lbs, 76inches wide, 194 inches long Chevy Bolt: 3500lbs, 69inches wide, 163 inches long The iPace might be great for LA but for SF it's totally inappropriate.
  - __loam 3y ago
    They look smaller than a lot of the suvs I see in the city while living here.