It’s still a red herring. I lived in the country and had many “pets” (well… stray cats) get killed by cars growing up. Humans kill soooo many pets with cars every year.
The only question is whether Waymo is less dangerous than humans on average, not whether Waymo can achieve a flawless track record.
It’ll be great if Waymo models can learn from this and become even safer. Human drivers absolutely don’t do that.
I don't think so. Not if it's easily within their engineering capabilities to make scenarios like this much safer or even completely safe.
Historically there's always been frequent accidents involving low speed fatalities of pets and children in similar fashion to this that tend to happen in driveways, so the fact the scenario hasn't been accounted for adequately is a little shocking.
>The only question is whether Waymo is less dangerous than humans on average, not whether Waymo can achieve a flawless track record.
Even if it's vastly safer than humans on average already, if this particular area is less safe than humans, then that warrants attention.
The only question is whether Waymo is less dangerous than humans on average, not whether Waymo can achieve a flawless track record.
It’ll be great if Waymo models can learn from this and become even safer. Human drivers absolutely don’t do that.