Waymos crash less than human drivers

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labrador ◴[26 Mar 25 21:36 UTC] No.43487628[source]▶

I was initially skeptical about self-driving cars but I've been won over by Waymo's careful and thoughtful approach using visual cues, lidar, safety drivers and geo-fencing. That said I will never trust my life to a Tesla robotaxi that uses visual cues only and will drive into a wall painted to look like the road ahead like Wile E. Coyote. Beep beep.

Man Tests If Tesla Autopilot Will Crash Into Wall Painted to Look Like Road https://futurism.com/tesla-wall-autopilot

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1. KoolKat23 ◴[26 Mar 25 21:51 UTC] No.43487811[source]▶

>>43487628 #

To be fair, I'm sure there's a few humans that would crash into a giant painted road in the middle of a straight road in the middle of nowhere. Humans crash due to less.

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2. labrador ◴[26 Mar 25 21:57 UTC] No.43487868[source]▶

>>43487811 (TP) #

Well, I wouldn't and neither would a Waymo, but a Tesla did, which means it's no better than a bad human driver

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3. saurik ◴[27 Mar 25 06:19 UTC] No.43490838[source]▶

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I think I might, and I'm surprised by how confident you are that you wouldn't.

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4. zeroday28 ◴[27 Mar 25 06:40 UTC] No.43490953[source]▶

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> I wouldn't

Of course, that's why traffic accidents are called 'accidents.' Drivers wouldn't crash their cars, but they do.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

5. jjav ◴[27 Mar 25 09:30 UTC] No.43491744{3}[source]▶

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If you watch the video, it would be blatantly obvious to any human that it is just a big poster across the road, completely fake. No human would fall for that but tesla does.

6. ourmandave ◴[27 Mar 25 09:49 UTC] No.43491846[source]▶

>>43487811 (TP) #

To be more fair, some humans will drive into rivers if the gps map tells them to. =\

7. ndsipa_pomu ◴[27 Mar 25 10:41 UTC] No.43492159[source]▶

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There's a fun thread available here: https://road.cc/content/forum/car-crashes-building-please-po...

It's where a bunch of cycling nutters (I'm one of them) post local news stories where a driver has crashed into a building ("It wasn't wearing hi-viz!")

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