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Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board (futurism.com)
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"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!

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[โ€“] Daughter_of_Sekhmet@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not against self driving cars for the sake of it but because I understand technology comes at a cost. The idea of pumping out cameras everywhere and centralizing all the data is giving corpos and governments unimaginable power.

I really don't like this crystal ball dystopia they're building and self driving cars are excellent means for surveillance and data collection.

[โ€“] bold_atlas@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm against it on the basis that a car makes no sense without it's original purpose to give an individual human greater self-mobility by being able to control where it goes without following a set course. If you're not controlling it then you might as well be in a bus.

A self-driving car is ultimately as absurd as self-walking shoes.