Comment by coderintherye
12 hours ago
Waymo's mission is literally "to be the world's most trusted driver"
They put safety above all else and actually goal to it.
12 hours ago
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...
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