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> The company said it does not have sensors under its vehicles, but noted that human-driven cars do not, either. How incredibly fucking callous. :( :( :( And
by justinclift 11mo ago
> The company said it does not have sensors under its vehicles, but noted that human-driven cars do not, either.
How incredibly fucking callous. :( :( :(
And their attempt to make out like people not having sensors under their vehicles is the same thing is even worse. People tend to have _awareness_ of WTF is around their vehicles because of stuff like this.
That can _sometimes_ not work out well, but it's completely different from Waymo (specifically here) not giving a fuck.
- rl3 11mo agoI tend to agree with your take. Surely an undercarriage sensor array can be done on the cheap (engineering and retrofits aside) due to the required sensing distance being quite short. Off the top of my head, it sounds like an area where ultrasonics and cameras would actually excel at (as opposed to replacing LIDAR for core functionality, which doesn't work very well as we've found out). End of the day it's way cheaper than lawsuits.
- simianwords 11mo agoI don’t get the outrage. If it is moral to eat animals it is strange to see outrage due to one cat dying from oversight.
- justinclift 11mo agoThis particular cat was clearly at "pet" level for the neighbourhood. Pets are effectively family members, so Waymo's attitude is extremely wrong for the situation.