Wow, driverless actually means no driver here. But how does that work? What if it makes a mistake? Is there some fallback pilot somewhere that can take over and control it remotely?
Waymo is allowed to test at all hours, in rain and light fog, within a limited geographic area.
The permitted taxi service allows them to scale up and charge a profitable fare. In the testing phase, their fares are severely reduce.
Cruise can charge full price without a driver, but Waymo only has the permit for a backup driver at full proce.
"Hi, yeah, car's gone berserk, we're approaching a river, all doors are locked, can't get out, need assistance."
"Hi, thank you for calling. Please hold (your breath)."
What makes you believe the autonomous car is more likely than a human driver to do that?
2. life experience, software expertise, common sense.
https://medium.com/swlh/what-do-self-driving-cars-and-elevat...
At this point I’m pretty sure it’s not true. If past public sentiment was so against automatic elevators, there would be at least one newspaper clipping or digitized article.
Certainly not any recent (consecutive) 10-year period.
The US average is about 36,000 auto-caused fatalities per year: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...
>Waymo is authorized to use a fleet of light-duty autonomous vehicles for commercial services within parts of San Francisco and San Mateo counties. The vehicles are approved to operate on public roads with a speed limit of no more than 65 mph and can also operate in rain and light fog. Waymo has had state authority to test autonomous vehicles on public roads with a safety driver since 2014 and received a driverless testing permit in October 2018.