hot take but i’m actually excited for these to come to seattle
can’t get sexually harassed by a car with no driver. this is a recurring problem when i take ubers
Yeah, Filipinos are decent drivers.
Waymo admits that its autopilot is often just guys from the Philippines
That isn’t really what that article says. It says that in edge cases, remote workers (mostly in the Philippines) give additional contextual inputs to the autopilot. There are some outstanding issues with waymos, especially around getting stuck idling or infinite loops at construction sites, but really just being remotely operated is not one of them.
That’s cool, can we get public transport please?
But block intersections way more than humans. And get stuck in flood zones way more than humans. And pass stopped school busses way more than humans.
And they still have more accidents per mile than actual taxi drivers.
No, they actually have fewer total accidents per mile than actual taxi drivers. Did you read the link you posted? They are involved in 1.5 times more accidents with severe or fatal injuries per mile, but that is comparing Waymos driving in more open cities at higher speeds to taxis in the very slow speed, high traffic city of NYC where the primary use case is different. Also, the only fatal accidents (2 of them) have been the fault of other cars, not Waymos, so it’s kinda unfair to include those.
“The researchers compared Waymo’s nationwide crash data with New York City’s for-hire fleet and found the robotaxis had a serious injury or fatal crash rate about 1.5 times higher per mile driven.”
Yes, thank you for quoting exactly what I said??
You are quoting the serious or fatal injury stats. The overall injury accident rate, though, as quoted from the article: “When all injury-causing crashes were considered, Waymo performed better. Its robotaxis were involved in 67% fewer injury crashes per million miles than New York City’s for-hire vehicles.”
Fatalities and serious injuries sound like a far more important statistic to optimize for in terms of public safety.
so NYC is safer than other places where waymos drive
They also park in bike lanes and pedestrian areas so I’m not holding my breath.
That being said, yeah I’m not surprised either. Riding the bus looking at drivers I’ll say a solid, very solid 1/4 minimum are doing something with their phones.
Human drivers also park there so at least they’re not worse I guess?
fair
The arsehole human parking in the bike lane can be caught and fined.
Allowing Waymo to do it normalises it and makes the issue worse.
I feel like Waymos would be easier. You just send it to Google, since they’re responsible for operation.
Nope, not buying it. Ai makes mistakes way more than regular people do
Seriously? People as a group suck at driving. The bar is super low. You are just going to form a random opinion on this and ignore data?
You do realize those cars are not using LLMs to drive, right?
I dunno, regular people can barely handle walking sometimes. Driving is especially hard.
so they don’t crash way mo?
I’ll see myself out
And if they do they crash way mo slo
X doubt
not hard to believe at all
waymos do silly things, but people do dangerous things more often like using their phones, get distracted, driving angry/tired, road rages at rush hour, speeding, etc
This is a pretty good video that goes into the intricacies of it
Contradicts the previous articles stating the opposite. (Easy to find, I don’t provide search services. )
if waymos were as bad as the average human driver they’d already be out of business
Would they? lol. I’m not sure that’s how 2026 works.
fair, they’d have pivoted to data centers or something
