Waymo

The company received permission in its home state of California to carry passengers in its cars, as long as they don't pay for the ride and there's a human safety driver behind the wheel.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/how-sebastian-thrun-learned-to-be-visionary-from-larry-page-2019-7

I have seen these little Waymo test cars running around Palo Alto a lot. For example, what you will see is some college student doing their homework or something while the vehicle drives around in traffic all by itself. So, the fact that Waymo can now give free rides to test subjects in test vehicles is a big step in the driverless taxi business towards the future as long as they are not taking on paying customers to ride in their cars. But, they have to have someone there pretending to be a driver while they watch for mistakes that the self driving equipment might make.

To me, watching for problems is a lot like watching paint dry. Because it is sort of a thankless job because you likely aren't going to see the problem until after they
happen. The kinds of problems self driving cars tend to make is sort of like the guy watching a Harry potter movie and his Tesla mistaking a semi truck's trailer for a Road sign and driving under it killing the driver watching the movie. But, also many Tesla drivers let their cars drive them home when they are drunk from a bar. I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not. I think hiring a taxi to take you home might be best. But, some people might not want to leave their Tesla parked next to a bar either.

There was a guy arrested I think in San Francisco for sleeping and being drunk while letting his Tesla drive him home recently by the way.

However, I don't really want to be riding on one of these things personally, unless I have at least a steering wheel and an emergency brake so I can save my life and all those present in the car if something goes wrong. I think some people are just too trusting of technology. You have to understand better what the limitations of technology are. Otherwise, what are people doing but potentially committing suicide riding in these things?

I used to program computers so I actually understand some of the limitations of software. People often anthropomorphize technology but in some ways that isn't very useful, sort of like talking to your bicycle or car. So, if you actually understand how the technology works it isn't like an animal or a human being at all. So, if it gets even one thing wrong (out of thousands of potential things) you are injured or dead. So, this is why I don't trust all this stuff because I actually do understand how this technology works.