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A flooded road is a very predictable event, though.
by fwip 5mo ago
A flooded road is a very predictable event, though.
- mulmen 5mo agoIs it? I have been driving for 25 years and never encountered one. Waymo seems to accept they can’t predict everything so they built a system that’s safe enough to operate in the real world and learn from experience.
- zardo 5mo agoYou probably haven't been driving in areas that flood then.
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- forgetfreeman 5mo agoYou haven't been driving for 25 years anywhere east of the Mississippi river if you've never encountered road flooding. Accepting they can't predict everything sounds reasonable. Failing to account for a routine occurrence is negligent.
- fwip 5mo agoI haven't encountered one as a driver either, but I'm pretty sure "Don't drive into roads with water on them" was a basic safety question on the permit test.
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- hnthrow0287345 5mo agoMy guess is this was brought up but getting the product out there was more important to the business so it got ignored. Now that it's a problem for them, they get to hide behind an "oops sorry, let's fix the really obvious thing now", almost like taking "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" to malicious levels. This jives with CRUD software in general, where people are not usually rewarded for preventing future issues and instead rewarded for waiting until it's a visible problem and then fixing it.