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San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones | "It's a great time" (www.techspot.com)
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Safe Streets Rebel's protest comes after automatic vehicles were blamed for incidents including crashing into a bus and running over a dog. City officials in June said...

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (10 children)

City officials in June said there have been ninety incidents involving Alphabet's Waymo and General Motors' Cruise vehicles since January.

Compared to how many traffic incidents involving human-operated vehicles? Because if that number is greater than 90, the AVs are the safer choice.

Automated cars don't have to be perfect; they just have to be better than people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And they will definitely be better than people. Just them being able to communicate with each other, even locally, can remove the need for traffic lights already.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What percent uptime does your phone's wifi/bluetooth/mobile internet have? Is it exactly 100%?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

All three combined? Yes 100%. I get what you are trying to suggest though.

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