[JumpCrisscross]

> there exists a much higher bar expected of computers/automation/etc. even if a waymo is objectively safer in terms of incidents per miles driven, one fatality makes headlines and adds scrutiny about “was it avoidable?”

This doesn’t seem to be happening. One, there are shockingly few fatalities. Two, we’ve sort of accepted the tradeoff.

[captainkrtek]

It does happen:

https://sfist.com/2024/05/14/waymo-now-under-federal-investi...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-closes-probe-int...

Similarly for Cruise: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-16/woman-ge...

[JumpCrisscross]

Sure. It happened. Folks moved on. Car companies are constantly being sued and investigated.

Cruise was outrageous because it fucked up in a way a human never would. (More germane: GM doesn’t have Google’s cash flow.)