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by jordansmithnz 533 days ago
While this did happen and obviously isn’t great, there’s a more skeptical side too.

The ‘trapped’ man is the CEO of an AI consulting firm. He posted the video to linked in, didn’t press the abort button, and had a relatively successful customer support experience (5 minutes delayed and not charged for the trip). Apparently he is using a PR firm to handle questions.

Make of that what you will. Waymo can clearly do better, although for what it’s worth — my worst uber experiences have been much worse than this (legitimately unsafe driving decisions).

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The Abort button does not Abort. It looks for a place to stop. Why would that work on this situation: https://youtu.be/5QFGGqrA5os?t=3136 (52:16)