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It sounds like the core issue behind the delay is that they’ve killed two dogs, and sometimes block emergency vehicles and public transit.

Of course, I’m sure that human-driven rideshare vehicles do similar things, and that seems to be Waymo’s PR angle here. I wonder how their safety record per mile driven compares to human drivers overall?

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> Of course, I’m sure that human-driven rideshare vehicles do similar things

Human-driven vehicles are generally better at recognizing exceptional situations (e.g. accident scenes, emergency vehicles, pedestrians doing weird things, etc) and avoiding them when possible, or extricating themselves from those situations when they can't be avoided. As things currently stand, self-driving vehicles generally seem worse at recognizing these situations; when one occurs, they often freeze in place, blocking traffic, until a human controller takes over.

Aside from the incidents where they block traffic, buses, and hit pedestrians. One of cruises cars hit someone crossing the street near where Cafe du Soleil used to be in the Lower Haight - I saw it with my own eyes.

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