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Comment by autoexec

3 days ago

> In 5 years, after someone is eventually fatally injured you'll just jump up and say "AHA! Told you Waymos are unsafe!"

That'll depend on the circumstances. If someone is killed because of a mistake a human wouldn't have made (like driving into oncoming traffic or down a light rail track) it'll be entirely their fault. Even if they do something humans sometimes do but never should like running a red light I'd argue that it makes them unsafe. To our knowledge they've only been involved in one human fatality so far but it wasn't their fault so I don't blame them for that.

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swisniewski  3 days ago

But humans do make mistakes like that (driving into oncoming traffic or driving down a light rail track).

For example, here’s a case where a human did it to avoid an ambulance:

https://www.click2houston.com/news/2012/09/18/10-injured-in-...

This guy says he was blinded by the sun:

https://kutv.com/news/local/trax-train-hits-vehicle-in-sandy

Sometimes people are drunk:

https://komonews.com/news/local/police-suspected-drunk-drive...

  • autoexec  3 days ago

    These people, even the drunk guy, weren't cruising down the tracks without a care in the world. They either stopped on tracks or were pushed onto them.

    I was skeptical about the guy who claimed to be "blinded by the sun" and searched for more info only to find that people get hit by the light rail in Sandy Utah with alarming frequency. Not even just in cars. Pedestrians, people on bikes, people in wheelchairs, I'm starting to think it's cursed.