A couple was looking to get home in the Mission District only for their Waymo cab to veer off a highway and accelerate to highway speeds.

“This is it. We’re dead. We’re going to die right here in the Waymo.”

This combined with another recent article from some insiders at Tesla saying, along the lines, “You couldn’t pay me to let one of these things drive me somewhere.”

And yet I still know people who are just so chuffed about “never having to drive again.”

EDIT: Comments have pointed out that this story is, at best, overblown and semi-fabricated otherwise. Take it with a massive grain of salt. But feel free to discuss self-driving, waymo, etc in the comments!

  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I’m all for self driving car tech, but not with goals of perpetual revenue generation.

    Give me something that is an addon to any car without any subscription or maintenance fees so I can just have it installed in my own car or in a few family cars, otherwise i’m truly not interested in providing yet another techbro for pay to use technology full of day 1 enshittification goals that include paying workers absolutely nothing.

    We all know that by the time real self driving cars are established they will cost as much or more than paying an actual human to do the job and all profit goes into the hands of a few. It’s just like what they’re going for with AI overall.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days ago

      We have the adaptive cruise control and lane keeping on a… I think it’s a 2019 Toyota platform. I’m not giving it control the whole drive, but they are legitimately useful safety feature assuming a reliable company built it. You know that game you play on long drives where you get pissed that someone is driving half a mile an hour slower than you but won’t give you room to pass? Like the adaptive cruise pretty much gets rid of that problem, where now you don’t have to pay as close attention to your speed and can pay more attention to not running shit over. Little things like that. There’s so much confusion (intentional confusion. Thanks space Karen!) about the state of the tech, like it’s great for what it does but people keep expecting too much out of it (again, thanks space Karen!). That’s not what you want with safety tech. You undersell what it can do then let it save lives, not oversell and watch people die grumble grumble grumble.