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Was said insider talking about Teslas or were they whinging about a competitor that makes better vehicles than they do?
Tesla
Found the article! https://www.reuters.com/investigations/why-teslas-ai-trainers-dont-trust-its-self-driving-tech-or-its-safety-stats-2026-05-28/
It was probably about Teslas given the state of Tesla's "self driving" feature.
Still, given everything I've heard about how Waymos react to novel situations, I'm not too keen on trusting my life to them either.
In my limited experience they all suck. I was driving a new Ford with "driver assist" and it decided to nearly kill everyone in the immediate area while driving through a construction zone. The transition from my driving to the vehicle taking over felt similar to the time my power steering (instant horror) went out and the transition from vehicle misreading the situation to my somewhat panicked regaining control felt like performing a highly illegal driving manuever. I'm singling out Ford because that was the vehicle make, but I'm fairly certain the technology itself is undercooked. I'll be sticking with my ancient vehicle as long as possible and maybe go buy something with a tape deck or 8-track next.
Yet. Trust your life to them… yet. All it takes is ALL vehicles to eventually be autonomous, and then you never have to worry about loss of life or injury. If all vehicles followed every rule to a “T,” there would be no issues.
When you look at all the edge cases, road rules are not 100% consistent. They rely on human judgement to manage the (rare) ambiguous situations, such as a misaligned road intersection. With ever vehicules following every rules to a T, there would still be issues.
I mean, if there are no humans on the road they won't be dying there. Doesn't seem like it would be very good for us, though, to no longer be allowed to travel.
There will always be idiot pedestrians and bicyclists, what about those?