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As a biker, I feel MICH safer around self driving cars because I know they are paying attention. I don’t need to check if they see me. They do.
by konschubert 3y ago
As a biker, I feel MICH safer around self driving cars because I know they are paying attention.
I don’t need to check if they see me. They do.
- SoftTalker 3y agoThat's the exact opposite assumption I'd make. As a biker, a pedestrian, or a driver.
- candiddevmike 3y agoSeeing a bike and recognizing a bike are two different things with self driving cars. I like OP's idea of having a visual cue that it recognized a bike.
- somethoughts 3y agoGoing forward - I think it's important to not just categorically say all self driving cars are safer than human drivers. It's probably better to say I feel safer around Waymo and <insert other trusted company> self driving cars. With such complexity and unknowns within the codebase - there is likely going to be a much higher amount of variability w.r.t. safety and AI decision making. I'm not so sure I'd categorically say a self driving car from say Nikola or some SPAC'd startup would make me feel all that safe.
- amelius 3y ago"I feel so safe around commit 07cc283a8344 of the Waymo software."
- iancmceachern 3y agoI'm the exact opposite. I've had a couple incidents that make me not trust them. (Weird this was down voted, just sharing personal experiences)
- dataflow 3y agoWith Waymo? Or others?
- iancmceachern 3y agoWaymo and Cruise. I live right near Oracle Park where there was a big Cruise Yard, and there is a ton of traffic and cruise, zoox, etc self driving cars circling the neighborhood endlessly. It's not as if I've had a overtly terrible single incident. It's as though they're causing unsafe driving conditions for pedestrians, cyclists and other motorists regularly. Driving unreasonably slow and erratic, stopping in the middle of streets, blocking traffic, not responding to the need for them to move or respond as human driver would. They're problematic. I could start a youtube channel or something it happens enough in my day to day life.
- acchow 3y agoAll of your descriptions perfectly match my experiences with Cruise but not at all my experiences with Waymo. I bike by Oracle park almost every day.
- emptysongglass 3y agoBecause you didn't share why. Also, please don't complain about downvotes, it's in the HN guidelines.
- jeffrallen 3y ago> they do Until you're being dragged under them.