Mastodawn

"a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles."

"Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles ... When compared to human drivers on the same roads, Waymo’s self-driving cars were involved in 91 percent fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes and 80 percent fewer crashes causing any injury. It showed a 96 percent lower rate of injury-causing crashes at intersections...deadliest I encounter in the trauma bay."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars.html

Opinion | The Medical Case for Self-Driving Cars

Compared to human drivers, Waymo cars were involved in 91 percent fewer crashes that resulted in serious injuries.

The New York Times

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Peter

@brewsterkahle The whole self-driving car hype is utter bullshit. We don't need self-driving cars, we need self-BREAKING cars. Which we could've had ages ago without all the focus on self-driving. Also, self-driving cars will only benefit the car industry, as it will make the number of cars on the road skyrocket.

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Brewster Kahle Dec 3

@pbb

having the waymo's running around SF continues to amaze and delight me. And they are popular.

personally, I am looking forward "cat buses" -- autonomous electric multi-person golf cart-like things that are super cheap to hop on and hop off. like the shared cars in havana, but does not waste a person's time to drive it.

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Peter Dec 3

@brewsterkahle Those "cat busses" are a Pandora's Box. When the technology is that capable, hardly anybody is going to want to sit in those tiny cabs. For the same reasons as now, most people want cars as big as possible. So you'll have your cat busses, but they're made of Escalades, Jeeps and RAMs. And of course they'll go wherever they choose thank you very much, not go in line like some kind of lemmings.