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by zepn 3021 days ago
This paradigm-shift is a chance to address one of the leading causes of preventable death in the world.

It doesn't surprise me for a moment that this was Uber (though it might have been a Tesla). From all I've seen and read, these companies are racing unscrupulously, and some have inferior technology compared with others.

Waymo seem to be approaching the problem from a safety direction rather than a pure race for profit.

We need to hold SDs to a higher standard than we hold human drivers. Not 1.5x the standard; 1000. 10,000. 100,000.

And every death must be treated as a serious failure of engineering. These are preventable deaths.