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by onlyrealcuzzo 973 days ago
At least in Chicago - if you kill some cycling and it's an accident - it's just an insurance payout. You don't even lose points on your license.

Unless you literally run someone over intentionally - you won't even lose your license. And if you do that, I bet you wouldn't even go to jail most of the time.

Can't tell you the amount of cyclists I know that have been hit by cars (and myself) and I don't know a single driver that had any real consequences (beside their insurance paying out a tiny sum that doesn't even cover half of your damages).

Not to mention, it's quite common for cyclists to get hit by cars and they hit and run (just happened to me a couple of months ago). Can't do anything if you don't have a full match on the plates. And even if you do have the plates - despite the fact that a hit & run is a pretty big deal if you hit a car - if you hit a cyclist - at least according to the police officer I filed a report with - the driver is unlikely to lose points - and almost certainly wouldn't lose their license. I could be entirely wrong - hopefully someone will correct me if so.

With Robo Taxis - no chance of that. The company will know which car was there when you got hit.
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micromacrofoot 973 days ago
And knowing which robot hit you will somehow make you more alive? Computers are all of the mistakes borne from humanity free from any sort of ethical reasoning.

I'd trust a drunk person more than a malfunctioning computer, personally.

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onlyrealcuzzo 973 days ago
Despite what you might think, cyclists get hit a shocking amount and rarely die.

I'd rather there be Waymo on the road than drunks.

And it's honestly shocking the ignorance on here these days that so many people refuse to look at stats with overwhelming evidence Waymo is safer than average drivers significantly, and would blow drunks out of the water by a massive margin.

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micromacrofoot 973 days ago
You think it's shocking that people who work on computers all day don't trust computers?

Waymo isn't magic, it's just making driving a series of decisions made by programmers.

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