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The difference is those human-driven cars all have a driver who can be held accountable.

If I kill someone with my car, I’m probably going to jail. If a Waymo or otherwise kills someone, who’s going to jail?



> If I kill someone with my car, I’m probably going to jail

This is rarely true in the US. A driver's license is a license to kill with near impunity.

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/man-gets-10-days-in-jai...


Should Waymo hire an "accountable" human who would go to jail if a Waymo car kills someone?

"Accountability" is fucking worthless, and I am tired of pretending otherwise.


Presumably, like Cruise, if the safety rate is appalling then they get their permits revoked which is 99% the same as jail for a company that only does self driving cars.


> If I kill someone with my car, I’m probably going to jail.

So this is very much not at all true.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-perfect-crime/

My entire point is that we don’t care about human lives on our roads. So yelling about the safety concerns about Waymos makes no sense.




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