After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

[ergophobe]

https://www.understandingai.org/p/human-drivers-keep-crashing-into

[Travoli]

Not surprising at all. Waymo Austin just integrated 100% into Uber. Now you can't specify Waymo vs. human driver. People are disappointed; most prefer the Waymo.

[rcjordan]

>Austin
>Uber
>Waymo

What do they send for a picture of the driver?

[Travoli]

Hah! The current Waymo boundary ends about 1/2 mile from me, so I haven't been matched with one. Waymo cars do display your initials on the roof when arriving, which is helpful at airports.

[ergophobe]

> Austin

I was too slow on the draw - I wanted to take a photo of the driverless Volkswagen ID Buzz that I saw in Austin to post. I really wanted to figure out how to ride in that, but had too many other things going on

[Travoli]

>saw in Austin

Yeah we have a bunch of robots running around. Waymo, Zoox, VW, Avride delivery robots, and apparently Tesla this Summer. It'll be interesting to see them all interacting.

[ergophobe]

> interesting to see them all interacting.

I suspect that they will interact with each other better than they interact with unpredictable humans. It might be interesting though since a lot of what humans do in unclear situations is make a minor assertion and see how others react and then update their strategy quickly as in a zipper merge or 4-way stop with 4 cars at once.

Though I can't quite say how it fits, for some reason, it reminds me of the famous Krishnamaurti story...

The devil and a friend were walking down the street, when they saw a man stoop down and pick something up.

The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?"

"He picked up a piece of Truth," said the devil.

"That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend.

"Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to let him organize it."