Taylor LorenzA crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/11/24069251/waymo-driverless-taxi-fire-vandalized-video-san-francisco-china-town
Maynewoods@taylorlorenz I suppose you could ask why not?
Nihl L'Amas@taylorlorenz I will allow my self-playing violin to handle all expressions of sympathy.
phryk 🏴@taylorlorenz Nice. 👍
Forrest Tanaka@taylorlorenz I hope no mob arbitrarily decides that *my* car or home needs to be burned, because destruction of private property is apparently justified to many.
Hue StL@forresttanaka Is your home driving over pedestrians?
@HueSatLight I see nothing in this article saying the car drove over pedestrians.
@forresttanaka I don't know why you're playing dumb.
PointlessSpike@forresttanaka It's not arbitrary. People don't randomly decide to do violence (most of the time, anyway). They had to feel very, very strongly that this was a bad thing. Random people, in the street, unified in feeling that. This car symbolised something that they fiercely oppose. We need to understand that, not just shake our heads and tut.
Jack Wellborn> Von Ohain and Rossiter had been drinking, and an autopsy found that von Ohain died with a blood alcohol level of 0.26 — more than three times the legal limit
Tesla will invariably use this as an excuse, but I would argue it exemplifies the problem with the name “Full Self-Driving”. An actual “full self-driving” should be able to get your drunk-ass self home safely, but Teslas aren’t actually “full self-drivng”. Calling it that only serves to dupe people and put them in danger.
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Jon voted, against fascism obv@taylorlorenz The Butlerian Jihad has begun.
keith@taylorlorenz seems reasonable
D. William
nerder@taylorlorenz can anyone explain the rationale of doing this?
danielmewesWait until the angry mobs find out that human drivers cause 92% more accidents in San Francisco per mile driven than even Cruise's vehicles...
Kit Adlington@danielmewes and in most instances those drivers have to live with the consequences of their actions, be it legal, emotional or financial. How eldo you punish a driverless car?
@taylorlorenz this is how the Matrix started