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Waymos crash less than human drivers

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345 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 26 Mar 25 20:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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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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KoolKat23 ◴[26 Mar 25 21:51 UTC] No.43487811[source]▶
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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labrador ◴[26 Mar 25 21:57 UTC] No.43487868[source]▶
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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1. zeroday28 ◴[27 Mar 25 06:40 UTC] No.43490953[source]▶
> I wouldn't

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

¯\_(ツ)_/¯