Comment by nkrisc
1 month ago
The difference is those human-driven cars all have a driver who can be held accountable.
If I kill someone with my car, I’m probably going to jail. If a Waymo or otherwise kills someone, who’s going to jail?
1 month ago
The difference is those human-driven cars all have a driver who can be held accountable.
If I kill someone with my car, I’m probably going to jail. If a Waymo or otherwise kills someone, who’s going to jail?
> If I kill someone with my car, I’m probably going to jail
This is rarely true in the US. A driver's license is a license to kill with near impunity.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/man-gets-10-days-in-jai...
Should Waymo hire an "accountable" human who would go to jail if a Waymo car kills someone?
"Accountability" is fucking worthless, and I am tired of pretending otherwise.
Presumably, like Cruise, if the safety rate is appalling then they get their permits revoked which is 99% the same as jail for a company that only does self driving cars.
> If I kill someone with my car, I’m probably going to jail.
So this is very much not at all true.
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-perfect-crime/
My entire point is that we don’t care about human lives on our roads. So yelling about the safety concerns about Waymos makes no sense.