There’s a huge gap in the perception of self-driving cars between San Franciscans and everyone else. And it’s not because of the hype cycles that dominate SF tech - it’s because SF people replaced Uber with Waymo a year ago and haven’t looked back at the comparatively-terrible product of Uber.
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Damn Uber is terrible?!
I think it’s a great service. I’ve never tried Waymo though.
Especially Tesla Uber Drivers that don’t know who to drive smoothly with the regenerative breaking turned on
Not true
My understanding was that cyclists and other drivers are significantly less happy? Though it's not like human drivers in SF are amazing.
https://art19.com/shows/the-urbanist-agenda/episodes/9e713263-e5e3-4db2-b290-ed85b0b7e959
Nah, almost all the cases people make a big deal of are actually cases where a human would have done the same, or worse. There’s a lot of people who like to scream in SF, very few for legitimate reasons. There’s obviously some teething issues with the tech, but overall it’s almost certainly better than your average Uber driver.
(Though Cruise’s tech is noticeably worse, they’ve had a *lot* more cases of definitely-their-fault accidents than Waymo, which has had vanishingly few). Sadly they get dumped into the same bucket.
