What an odd thing to say…

  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    More so when you take her actual statement in context: that they’re actually reducing deaths by being safer. The comments on lemmy are turning out to be just as biased and ungrounded in reality as they were on Reddit.

    Waymo robotaxis are so safe that, according to the company’s data, its driverless vehicles are involved in 91 percent fewer crashes compared to human-operated vehicles.

    And yet the the company is bracing for the first time when a Waymo does kill somebody — a moment its CEO says society will accept, in exchange for access to its relatively safer driverless cars.

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      2 days ago

      However I’m pretty sure that a standard transit system not made up of single cars that can only transport one or two person at a time and spy on them is also much safer.

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      Waymo robotaxis are so safe that, according to the company’s data, its driverless vehicles are involved in 91 percent fewer crashes compared to human-operated vehicles.

      Wow, you think the “company’s data” is a trustworthy source? Where is your critical thinking skills?

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          1 day ago

          If the data is falsified that’d be illegal.

          Oh no! It would be illegal!

          And what would be the punishment if it was found out that they released illegal data? A fine that could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars? On top of their tens of millions of dollars of profits?

          Do you have a reason to think otherwise?

          Yes, they are directly incentivized to either push their data in a biased direction or outright falsify their numbers, in order to facilitate the marketing strategy of these taxis being a “safe” technology, and increase their profit margin.

          Fuck… have we learned nothing from the tobacco industry?!