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Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board (futurism.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by other_cat@piefed.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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"This is it. We're dead. We're going to die right here in the Waymo."

This combined with another recent article from some insiders at Tesla saying, along the lines, "You couldn't pay me to let one of these things drive me somewhere."

And yet I still know people who are just so chuffed about "never having to drive again."

EDIT: Comments have pointed out that this story is, at best, overblown and semi-fabricated otherwise. Take it with a massive grain of salt. But feel free to discuss self-driving, waymo, etc in the comments!

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[–] vetehinen@lethallava.land 2 points 3 months ago

@DragonAce@lemmy.world there's really no evidence of that at all and their support staff is much smaller compared to the size of the fleet. You can also find plenty of examples of Waymos behaving in a way that human remote controlling them would never be doing. So it's seems very unlikely that these vehicles are some kind of "mechanical turks".