πšƒπšŠπš›πšŠπšœ π™Άπš›πšŽπšœπšŒπš˜πšŽ πŸš‡Dec 21

This is your city on driverless cars.

A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.

https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/waymo-sf-blackout-robotaxi-traffic-jams/

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Maybe allowing a private company to flood public space with a massive fleet of unmanned vehicles isn't great transportation policy. (Especially when shit happens. And shit *always* happens.)
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On the other hand, we could just let the "disruptors" do exactly what they want. That usually works out fine.
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The fact that driverless cars kill + injure fewer people than conventional cars is a genuine plus.

It doesn't outweigh minus of private companies flooding public streets with constantly cruising vehicles that periodically cause gridlock, chaos.

Here's one Waymo messing up dozens of people's day.

There should be zero tolerance for interfering with public transport like this. Any sane community would recognize this as indefensible.

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@straphanger

"The fact that driverless cars kill + injure fewer people than conventional cars is a genuine plus..."

This is not true. It is something the industry says, but there is insufficient data to establish that they are safer on a per capita basis across the full range of driving conditions.

Dec 21 at 8:30pmWeb
Show threadDemianDec 22
@mastodonmigration @straphanger claims from big corporations about what research says should categorically be considered BS, or at best coincidentally truthful.
These statistical sleight of hands reported for AVs remind me of BS claims from corporate education reformers about charter schools and personalized learning software
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@dgodon @straphanger

Precisely

Show threadWesDymDec 29
@dgodon Oh, get over yourself already.
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@mastodonmigration "I choose to believe what I prefer to!"

Okay, fine. But I don't have to listen to it, and I won't.