Man trapped inside driverless car as it spins in circles

[Homer J Simpson]

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c70e2g09ng9o

[Analog Kid]

Oh yeah, the bright shining future of total technological nirvana making every aspect of our lives ever so much more glorious and fulfilling ...

[Halcyon]

Still safer than jumping in a taxi or Uber in Sydney.

[magic]

How about both?
Would a self driving taxi in Sydney spin in the opposite direction?

[thm_w]

Oh yeah, the bright shining future of total technological nirvana making every aspect of our lives ever so much more glorious and fulfilling ...

Sure as hell of a lot safer.

Crash rate: Waymo Driver has a crash rate that's 85% lower than human drivers.

In 2023, there were 1,307 traffic fatalities in Arizona.
There were 122,247 car accidents, which is one accident every four minutes and 18 seconds.
54,198 people were injured in car accidents
4.71% of all crashes and 25.73% of fatal crashes involved alcohol
https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1cs0jvm/here_fyi_are_the_nhtsa_reports_on_the_waymo/

[SiliconWizard]

It's much safer than putting your head in an electric chopper. That's a win.

[Analog Kid]

Crash rate: Waymo Driver has a crash rate that's 85% lower than human drivers.

In 2023, there were 1,307 traffic fatalities in Arizona.
There were 122,247 car accidents, which is one accident every four minutes and 18 seconds.
54,198 people were injured in car accidents
4.71% of all crashes and 25.73% of fatal crashes involved alcohol
https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1cs0jvm/here_fyi_are_the_nhtsa_reports_on_the_waymo/

Apples and oranges. Waymo (and whatever other self-driving cars might be out there) are a tiny percentage of the total # of cars on the road, which doesn't appear to have been adjusted for in this statement.

[schmitt trigger]

One doesn’t really understand the feeling of helplessness and terror, unless one has ridden a cab on Cairo.

[Analog Kid]

One doesn’t really understand the feeling of helplessness and terror, unless one has ridden a cab on Cairo.

Or being driven down the highway in Nicaragua ...

[thm_w]

Apples and oranges. Waymo (and whatever other self-driving cars might be out there) are a tiny percentage of the total # of cars on the road, which doesn't appear to have been adjusted for in this statement.

No, the 85% number is based on miles driven.
The other numbers give you context, what if 85% less people died from vehicle crashes every year? Why would you be against that?

[magic]

Dunno, I think I'd rather see humans kill themselves or each other rather than be killed by machines.
Besides, humans are such dangerous idiots, why would you be against them dying in the first place?

Another matter is that those statistics are likely coming from self driving vendors, just like "we will have full self driving in two years" from another vendor. Aren't those cars spending most of their time in boring traffic jams, for example?

[audiotubes]

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c70e2g09ng9o

We read worse. Years ago it was not possible to unlock the doors on the new Corvette C6 I think it was, unless you had the car key with the chip embedded in it, inserted in the steering wheel.

More than one person died suffocating in the heat when he couldn't get out of his car.

[tszaboo]

Oh yeah, the bright shining future of total technological nirvana making every aspect of our lives ever so much more glorious and fulfilling ...

Sure as hell of a lot safer.

Crash rate: Waymo Driver has a crash rate that's 85% lower than human drivers.

In 2023, there were 1,307 traffic fatalities in Arizona.
There were 122,247 car accidents, which is one accident every four minutes and 18 seconds.
54,198 people were injured in car accidents
4.71% of all crashes and 25.73% of fatal crashes involved alcohol
https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1cs0jvm/here_fyi_are_the_nhtsa_reports_on_the_waymo/

Plus if your driverless car drives into a concrete wall because the software divided with zero, it's one less causality, right? So let's ban humans driving. [/s]
When was the last time your taxi diver was drunk?
When was the last time he was 80 year old driving a Peugeot with one headlamp missing without clue how to drive anymore?
Comparing this statistics is pointless, it just proves that some people shouldn't drive, and we know that already.

[iMo]

The video looks like being staged, imho..

[schmitt trigger]

The video looks like being staged, imho..

What makes you think that?
I am only *sincerely curious.*