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Waymo Driverless Car Drives Into Active Police Standoff

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Above: A Waymo self-driving Jaguar drives along Venice Beach in Los Angeles on March 14, 2024. Image credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

The Spin

While autonomous Waymo vehicles, like any car or driver, aren't perfect, occasional incidents like this shouldn't distract from how phenomenal these cars have become. With 96M miles logged and 91% fewer serious-injury crashes than humans, most reported collisions weren't the AV's fault. The data shows Waymo's tech is already dramatically safer than typical drivers.

Zego Futurism

Even if Waymo is safer on paper, expanding "self-driving" tech without strict oversight ignores a bigger threat: cars are becoming rolling surveillance devices. Automakers already share location and behavior data without consent, and vulnerable people can be tracked or harmed. Until privacy, regulation, and misuse risks are addressed, celebrating AVs is premature.

The Baylor Lariat Electronic Frontier Foundation

Metaculus Prediction

There's a 50% chance that Uber will announce a partnership with a second autonomous vehicle company (besides Waymo) by Jan.21, 2027, according to the Metaculus prediction community.

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