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Great, what's more concerning than crash rates though are impeding emergency vehicles, blocking roads, stalling when traffic lights are down, rolling past school buses with stop arms out, navigating in construction zones and lots of other issues that are left out of this report.

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No, I think those are solidly less concerning than crash and injury rates.

Like, could you imagine yourself seeing a self driving car that's perfect in all the ways like that, no dumb quirks, but it crashes twice as often as a human, and saying "well it got the important stuff right"

Autonomous vehicles need to be safer than human drivers, not trading one set of safety concerns for different ones.

Waymo's cars are safer.

You have to pick one thing to be more important. Accident rates, or the stuff you listed in your first comment. Which one do you pick?

These cars are not one step forward, one step back. They're five steps forward, one step back. Saving lives is much bigger than the weirdness.

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