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Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar” (road.cc)

submitted 1 day ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] wpb@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

But Waymo taxis are demonstrably safer than human drivers.

... says research paid for by Waymo.

I know critical thinking skills are in short supply these days, but come on.

[–] Elextra@literature.cafe 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I made a previous post about this. Anecdotally, I've seen numerous human drivers hit pedestrians in SF. Number of Waymos hitting humans that I have seen in local news or in person, none.

They are very very conservative with their driving in SF but can still navigate SFs complex streets (I.e. when a doordash is parallel parked theyre very good at driving around them).

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That's why you have to standardize the statistics.

Humans are responsible for more total pedestrian crashes than robo taxis simply because there's more human drivers on the road.

Although the standardized statistics agree with your anecdotal observations in this case.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know why you are trying to defend human drivers so much. I share the road whit them every day and I hope to fucking God they all get replaced with robots soon.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 7 hours ago

I'm not trying to defend human drivers; I'm all for all human drivers being replaced.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 8 hours ago

That's not critical thinking. It's making an assumption based on bias.