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Waymo's Double-Crash with Pickup Truck, Cyclist and Arson Examined

• deleted 3y ago
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• xnx 3y ago
  Brad writes a lot of interesting stuff on self-driving cars (he calls them "robocars"). Not sure why this particular page made it to Hacker News. Waymo has to do an interesting dance with municipalities where it wants to be cooperative, but not let the municipalities think they have authority that they don't.
• pimlottc 3y ago
  Good lord, what a headline. To be clear, they’re talking about three separate incidents: 1) a towed trucks that was hit by two separate Waymo vehicles; a crash with a cyclist; and the Waymo that was torched in SF.
  • nick7376182 3y ago
    "examining four recent Waymo incidents: two crashes into the same pick-up truck, one with a cyclist, and one incident of arson."
• paulryanrogers 3y ago
  > By many standards, these student and newly licensed drivers are “not ready” but we embrace them Because they must drive to gain experience. That's why it happens in phases: with a teacher, temp permit with another driver, etc. Without this process we wouldn't have drivers at all. Simulators can only do so much and they are costly.