Comment by RomanPushkin

Comment by RomanPushkin 3 days ago

Will post it here:

> In October 2025, a Waymo autonomous robotaxi struck and killed KitKat, a well-known bodega cat at Randa's Market in San Francisco's Mission District, sparking debates over self-driving car safety

It's a child now. All I wanna ask - what should happen, so they stop killing pets and people?

GoatInGrey 3 days ago

The real but contentious answer is to change our street and urban design. You can only do so much to make a giant metal machine safe for children and small animals to be struck by. Reducing the frequency of cars and pedestrians occupying the same space will go further than trying to engineer the equivalent of a pool that is impossible to drown in.

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NewJazz 3 days ago

Do you think that a company that operates autonomous vehicles will support legislation that makes it easier and safer to move around on foot without getting hit by a car? Or will they lobby for car-centric urban design, like many many companies before them?

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- fragmede 3 days ago
  
  Absolutely. Because the next step is to ban human driven cars from those areas, and in that case, who makes boat loads of money?
  
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