What's terrifying is it could've just as easily been a child that was playing and trying to retrieve a ball, thinking the car's parked because there's no driver.
Aloisius•55m ago
Wow. This article is peak slop. Seriously. Absolute garbage.
This kind of word vomit, in a sane world, would permanently destroy a site's reputation.
biophysboy•38m ago
When I took a Waymo in California, it was a nearly perfect experience. The one exception was when a person in front of me stopped and tried to parallel park on the right side of the road. The Waymo wasn't giving them enough space, sort of inching forward as they attempted to back in. I felt bad - I could see as we passed that the car had stressed them out. I still think Waymos are good overall, but it kind of surprised me it didn't know how to handle this situation.
standardUser•37m ago
I want to see more autonomous driving news here and everywhere, because I think people are sleeping on it, but this isn't new it's a series of sloppily integrated dark patterns in a trenchcoat.
dcre•1h ago
1) fatalities have declined a lot from their pandemic peak. It looks kind of like a reversion to trend
2) exactly none of those fatalities were caused by a Waymo, because there has never been a Waymo fatality
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
boh•1h ago
rl3•1h ago
I'm afraid poor Kit Kat would disagree:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/waymo-kit-kat-san-fran...
rl3•4m ago
What's terrifying is it could've just as easily been a child that was playing and trying to retrieve a ball, thinking the car's parked because there's no driver.