They could've done it just fine. You only get treated like shit on the roads if your behavior is both selfish/unnecessary and inconveniences others Garbage tr

They could've done it just fine. You only get treated like shit on the roads if your behavior is both selfish/unnecessary and inconveniences others Garbage truck leaving a slowly but as fast as he can -> no problem Tesla M3 leaving a light slowly -> dude deserves ever honk he gets. BMW M3 weaving through traffic cuts people off but is gone as fast as he came -> nobody cares Prius doing 55 in the right lane -> no problem Prius doing 55 in the left lane because entitlement -> lots of middle fingers I have complete confidence waymo would have "done the right thing". The real problem is that there still would have been a million rear endings. Eventually the insurance companies would have sued them because no amount of idiots online screeching about the "rules" actually makes it ok to habitually create the preconditions for an accident. It would have been a big expensive legal fight. The state doesn't want high speed limits to reflect how fast people actually drive. Waymo doesn't wanna be involved in that. The insurance companies don't wanna be involved in that. It's just a no brainer not to given the constraints. Though I can't help but wonder if insurance rates would've eventually gone down for everyone if the issue got forced and it resulted in some sort of "after the 3rd rear ending they're on you by default" rule or something.