(DCNF)—Waymo, the self-driving taxi service owned by Google’s parent company, is recalling 1,212 vehicles operating in San Francisco, Phoenix and Austin after they repeatedly collided with gates, chains and other roadside barriers.
The voluntary recall, which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) publicized Wednesday, covers cars running Waymo’s fifth-generation automated driving code and follows a federal investigation opened last year into a series of low-speed barrier crashes. The recall coincides with NHTSA’s letter to Tesla expressing concern over Robotaxis’ ability to manage uncommon roadway hazards.
“Waymo provides more than 250,000 paid trips every week in some of the most challenging driving environments in the U.S.,” the company told the Daily Caller News Foundation, adding they plan to “work collaboratively” with NHTSA. “We hold ourselves to a high safety standard, and our record of reducing injuries over tens of millions of fully autonomous miles driven shows our technology is making roads safer.” more
why trust something controlled by gargle?
“We hold ourselves to a high safety standard, and our record of reducing injuries over tens of millions of fully autonomous miles driven shows our technology is making roads safer.”
But for the sake of being honest, let’s add:
“We take full responsibility for any loss of life and limb that our technology costs society. Our insurance and legal teams are fully prepared to provide sympathy and bereavement services…”
the firmware/hardware/software assholes responsible have been verbally reprimanded, will be retrained & monitored to prevent future disasters
When/if I want that kind of experience I’ll go to the county fair and ride the bumper cars.
collisions with gates? was bill hurt?
When the human deaths pile up, maybe someone will care.
“Hello. You’re in a Johnny Cab. Hell of a day, isn’t it?”
Sorry, not sorry, I just don’t see this technology being “ready for prime time” in my lifetime, maybe never. (And according to average life expectancy, I only have about 8 years left)
Bumper Cars are us?
From their graph at the link- they claim that out of the 57 mil drivers, they have had
“92% fewer crashes with injuries to pedestrians.”
I can’t wait for the Waymo motorcycles, F-16s, and buses.