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After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers (arstechnica.com)
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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (3 children)

We always knew good quality self-driving tech would vastly outperform human skill. It's nice to see some decent metrics!

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My drive to work is 8 minutes. This morning i almost had a crash because a guy ran a stop sigh. I don't think the bar is very high at this point.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

That's the beauty of it - we've only just begun to improve the situation. It's going to get better and better until eventually traffic accidents are a rarity.