A couple was looking to get home in the Mission District only for their Waymo cab to veer off a highway and accelerate to highway speeds.

“This is it. We’re dead. We’re going to die right here in the Waymo.”

This combined with another recent article from some insiders at Tesla saying, along the lines, “You couldn’t pay me to let one of these things drive me somewhere.”

And yet I still know people who are just so chuffed about “never having to drive again.”

EDIT: Comments have pointed out that this story is, at best, overblown and semi-fabricated otherwise. Take it with a massive grain of salt. But feel free to discuss self-driving, waymo, etc in the comments!

  • Chozo@fedia.io
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    5 hours ago

    So why couldn’t one of the passengers have hopped into the driver seat and pressed the brake?

    No reason at all. If you touch the wheel or pedals, it automatically disengages the automatic driving.

    Maybe we should have kill switches inside these things.

    There is a screen on the back of the front seats, with buttons to stop/pullover and contact support.

    All the safety options were there, but instead of using any of them he took out his phone to record video of not a whole lot happening. Because that’s what you do when you really fear for your life, after all.