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It's interesting how waymos get more article against them compared to tesla.
There is a targeted campaign against waymo.
How can i not think the journalist is in bad faith, when he complain that the waymo doesn't stop... in case he run under another car ?
As an european, when I see this video, the problem isn't the automated cars, but the fact the car are allowed to go this fast on a lane without a traffic light to protect the pedestrian.
Edit:
Because they slowed down too much the traffic and have a campaign against them, about how they slowed too much the traffic, for respecting the law.
Waymo is running driverless (or at least remote monitored) taxis all over SF. that's why they're getting headlines, they're out and being used at scale.
Tesla are also used at scale, while sold as "autopilot" (it's not).
Teslas scan not legally be driverless. Whatever happens is the drivers fault.
But yes, I remember the same thing, being amazed they intentionally don’t come to a complete stop at stop signs. That may be how the world works these days but it shouldn’t
afaik, the waymo always respected stops and tesla had to remove the rolling stop feature.
"The squeaky hinge gets the grease"
"The nail that sticks out farthest vets the hammer first"
These are metaphors to say "since Waymo is the one doing things like driverless taxis all over a city, they're getting news stories and social media posts"
Yes, things like Tesla suck too. But tesla isn't operating a "driverless taxi" service. Yet.
I'm sure that as something advertised as "driverless" that tesla's owner gets pissy about it and probably feeds into negative press against them, but that doesn't excuse what they do.
Tesla sells an "autopilot" and make consumers think you don't need to drive.
Waymo didn't caused any death yet, and when any piece of media I seen that wasn't a charge against Waymo, they behaved extremely well compared to the average driver.