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  1. Waymo golf clap on Waymo's Driverless Cars Have Logged 10 Million Miles On Public Roads (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Yaay, Waymo drives 0.0003 percent of the miles that humans do in a year.

  2. Re:covering ground being the operative word on Waymo's Driverless Cars Have Logged 10 Million Miles On Public Roads (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So the other year when they replaced the normal intersection by my house to a round-about, you're saying Google will be there with their cars ready to scan that intersection the moment it opens? Keep in mind we are but one small city. There is no way the city will have the expertise for this.

  3. Waymo drives 0.0003 percent the miles humans drive a year in hand-picked conditions and you talk like they deserve a safety award or something.

  4. Re:What about it? Owner vs manufacturer? on Fully Self-Driving Cars May Hit US Roads in Pilot Program: NHTSA (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Why would it be your fault? Did you tell your automated car to hit the pedestrian? Did you tell your automated car to do anything that would cause you believe the trip would not be safe? If the answer is no., then it's not your fault.

  5. If they capture a minor in his/her undies, will they be charged with child porn? Does anyone know where these go?

  6. Some people are more believable than others.

  7. I don't know, I'm listening to the details Ford testified with. Her memory seems clear to me. She said she had one beer.

  8. Nothing says we mean business like 'voluntary'.

  9. This article is about using self driving as a Taxi soon. That tells me they are willing to let them drive anywhere without constraint.

  10. Ford is receiving death threats. You don't subject yourself to death threats if it isn't something that is very important to you.

  11. Re: "credible" on Senate Passes Bill That Lets the Government Destroy Private Drones (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You're probably asking the wrong person, because I have a pretty clean record. Even so, I could envision a person who has done a great deal worse than me becoming a Supreme court justice. I don't care if they smoked or drank at an early age. What I can't understand is anyone who ever in their lives did not have the common sense to treat women with absolute respect becoming a Supreme court justice. You are just downplaying serious lack of judgement by calling it a minor lack of judgement.

  12. Humans drive 3.22 trillion miles a year and get into around 20 million accidents (yes I have accounted for 30% unreported accidents). This means they drive 161,000 safe miles per accident, giving them a failure rate of 1 every 161,000 miles. Let's not quibble about the fact that this success rate is beyond comparable to self driving because this is all weather, all places, all circumstances. You can't tell me Apple has less than a 0.0006% failure rate for their electronics, or that people get into accidents more often than vehicles break down.

  13. Re: "credible" on Senate Passes Bill That Lets the Government Destroy Private Drones (engadget.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Personally I think a judge presiding over the highest court in the land, hired to be a legal and moral compass, should have to bear the burden of demonstrating they aren't scum. This isn't about guilty or innocent after all, he isn't being tried for crimes, he is going through a very strict job interview.

  14. I might add, it's not just 3.22 trillion miles driven by humans per year, but those miles are anywhere in the continental US, in any weather and any situation; not just on clearly marked roads with proper traffic signals.

  15. 30,000 deaths per year out of 3.22 TRILLION MILES driven. Put it into perspective.

  16. Re: Waymo is not Uber on Fully Driverless Waymo Taxis Are Due Out This Year, Alarming Critics (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you're in for a rude awakening, because self driving cars have nowhere near the logged safe miles than humans do.

  17. You don't have it, because it is a ridiculous proposition.

  18. I think we're about to see just how good humans are at driving.

  19. Re: Waymo is not Uber on Fully Driverless Waymo Taxis Are Due Out This Year, Alarming Critics (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Emotions are exactly what prevent humans from entering into dangerous situations in the first place. You have emphasized exactly why a person painting lines to a cliff is a valid concern. The fact that AI has no fear is a huge problem, because it will not hesitate to follow its rules into a dangerous situation.

  20. Cite evidence that sign design and intersection design is exactly as misunderstood as neural networks.

  21. They can't be fixed in a way that guarantees new flaws aren't being introduced.

  22. Re:It is inevitable on Fully Driverless Waymo Taxis Are Due Out This Year, Alarming Critics (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's bull, because if a human driver kills a human, then that human has made a mistake. If an automated car kills a human, THEY ALL make the mistake.

  23. Humans drive over 400,000 miles without an accident. These don't, even in perfectly selected conditions.

  24. This.

  25. Re: Well I if didn't count my business expenses on Half of US Uber Drivers Make Less Than $10 An Hour After Vehicle Expenses, Study Says (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Availability of living wages has actually fallen as the unemployment rate has gone down. This has happened over the last five years and continues to happen; BECAUSE OF THESE KINDS OF JOBS.