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by threeseed 754 days ago
Waymo is a subsidiary of Alphabet.

And not sure why you think running stop signs or any anti safety measures would increase profits.

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Because once the current safety scrutiny has passed you might get more trips done by setting the ai to be more aggressive in traffic. Then you are into VW style software updates with a profit motive and no mechanism to hold them accountable?
> no mechanism to hold them accountable

Like banning them altogether following a public outcry? That is the mechanism to hold them accountable.

Also in individual cases it will be very easy to sue them for accidents they caused or contributed to. Already is.

Where does this “no mechanism to hold them accountable” comes from?

>And not sure why you think running stop signs or any anti safety measures would increase profits.

Because this big companies like Google are actually evil. As an example the mobile YouTube app does not let you use it if you turn off the screen. So Google decided that wasting energy and killing batteries is an acceptable thing to do, this is pure evil - I would accept they adding more advertising or whatever but killing the life span of a device and wasting energy is truly evil shit.