Comment by lkbm
21 hours ago
Uber and Lyft were supported by police departments because they reduced drunk driving. Drunk driving isn't just impoverished alcoholics. People go to bars and parts and get drunk all the time.
You also solve for people texting (or otherwise using their phones) while driving, which is pretty common among young, tech-adopting people.
> Drunk driving isn't just impoverished alcoholics. People go to bars and parts and get drunk all the time
Yes, but the drivers who are 5th percentile drivers who cause a huge share of the most severe accidents are "special" in various ways. Most of them are probably not autonomy early adopters.
The guy who decided to drive on the wrong side of a double yellow on a windy mountain road and hit our family car in a probable suicide attempt was not going to replace that trip with Waymo.