Will Waymo accept when society starts killing robotaxis? Feels like self defense.

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

Her death?

Edit: I'm getting the 'famous last words' vibes of Charlie Kirk. She is going to be killed by one of her cars.

Notice how they say nothing about taking responsibility for robotaxi deaths when they happen.

Self-serving CEO makes self-serving statements. Not really new.

Uber had a fatal crash, albeit with a safety driver who was distracted at the time. There was uproar and Uber scaled back their venture but society largely moved past it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54175359

Well, he would say that, woudn't he?

Misleading headline is misleading.

The full statement was about society accepting this in the context of autonomous vehicles also drastically reducing these deaths, overall. Which, yeah, society will likely accept that, given that we already "accept" quite a lot of traffic deaths.

To be clear, I still think this is all crap. We all know that what's actually gonna happen is that when this kind of accident happens, the companies will be functionally immune from liability. People harmed or killed by these autonomous vehicles will have no recourse to hold anyone accountable. Not to mention the VAST assumptions baked into "autonomous vehicles will reduce traffic deaths"

That's disgusting. He's probably right.

Well shit, let the CEO Luigi himself then, for his shareholders.

About 3700 people die every day in motor vehicle crashes. 1.35 million per year.

Why wouldn't you allow a safer alternative to human operators?

And I would accept the death of the Way I CEO

I know that, once cars drive themselves, it will be just time before an accident happens and someone does.

I also know that computer driven taxies will likely be safer than human ones, at some point

I also know you don't brag about that shit, and if I hear a fucking CEO brag about how the public will be fine when his product murders a person, I'm fine with his death as well.

Society will accept the murder of a Waymo exec

Yeah I don't think society would have any problem with the death of Waymo's co-CEO. Might even think it's justified if he's done in by a robotaxi.

You have to ride in a Waymo to get it. This is not Tesla. It feels safer than driving yourself.