Comment by Junk_Collector

20 hours ago

It could, but maybe not if your motto is, "Move Fast and Break Things."

Article is short on data instead referencing a bunch of aggregated IIHS studies.

Uber exited the autonomous vehicle race several years ago. AFAICT, largely because of this mismatch. Who's still in this area (in a serious way) that behaves like that?

That’s a Facebook motto but Facebook (now Meta) isn’t in AVs. I suppose that excludes Facebook of pre 2016 from participating in AVs? I think everyone is fine with that.

Waymo's mission is literally "to be the world's most trusted driver"

They put safety above all else and actually goal to it.

  • This is a stunning attempt to rewrite history.

    > It was Levandowski who...had persuaded Google’s leadership to spend millions of dollars inventing self-driving cars.

    > Some of the biggest fights involved risks that Levandowski was taking in self-driving experiments. ... “If it is your job to advance technology, safety cannot be your No. 1 concern,” Levandowski told me. “If it is, you’ll never do anything. It’s always safer to leave the car in the driveway. You’ll never learn from a real mistake.” [0]

    [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/did-uber-steal...