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
    38·
    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.

                  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
                    12·
                    11 months ago

                    Distracted commuters are where the accidents happen, people who should not be using roads but public transportation.

                    Yeah, you’re right, there’s no point implementing any road safety standards or technology whatsoever because it would be better if we all just instantly switched to public transportation! Thank god we live in a world where it’s only ever worth it to pursue the most perfect and naïve solution! All we have to do is rework our entire transportation network and tear down existing houses and force the residents to all move into villages! What a perfect solution, totally feasible in the next 10 years.

                    What part of “DHL manufactured cars themselves” did you not understand. They know exactly what they need from their vehicles and self-driving wasn’t on the list.

                    Lol, DHL didn’t specify self driving because it wasn’t an available option, and they don’t have the technical capability to build, not because they wouldn’t want it. They have an entire page on their website stating explicitly that they are closely monitoring self driving technology as it stands to have a huge impact on their business.