No one was inside a Waymo car as it was destroyed.

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Individual transportation is the number one cause of preventable road fatalities,

      Even in an ideally car-free society, you will literally never be able to get rid of taxis, deliveries, moving large furniture / household items, etc. without some form of enclosed motorized transportation (a car for the purposes of this discussion).

      human or machine doesn’t matter

      If we make machines that are safer than humans than yeah, it will.

        • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
          25·
          11 months ago

          Well the don’t shift goal posts to “individual transportation” when we’re talking about people thrashing a self driving car.

          They didn’t trash a normal individual transporter.

            • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
              15·
              11 months ago

              You can still automate the driving part of moving and delivery services, which is the dangerous part.

                • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
                  14·
                  11 months ago

                  No. Not securing loads is the dangerous part.

                  Jesus christ, you’re trying to argue that driving isn’t dangerous? Ok bud, glad to see you’re approaching this discussion in good faith /s

                  There’s a reason you don’t see the likes of UPS or DHL get into automated cars, but venture capital moonshot tech companies promising nonsense on the one hand,

                  Yeah, cause they literally started from DARPA’s moonshot program and take massive amounts of cutting edge machine learning to execute, not exactly DHL / UPS’ strong suit given that they contracted out development of almost all of their software until very recently.