Interesting Links for 19-06-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Looks like "Reform" are lying about the Equality Act.

(tags:UK UKIP lies politics )

2. "I'm Personally Going To Force Game Companies To Put In All That Stuff You Hate"

(tags:society games satire )

3. Henry Selick Talks Remastered 'Coraline'

(tags:movies animation stopmotion 3dprinting neilgaiman )

4. Self-driving cars found to be safer - except at dawn, dusk, or when turning

(tags:cars automation safety )

5. Waymo self driving cars seem to be much much safer than human drivers

(tags:driving cars automation safety )

Comments

[cmcmck]

1 And just about everything else beside plus a good dose of child abuse!

4

[channelpenguin]

That's rather a large part of driving..

5

[channelpenguin]

According to Waymo ... and we trust them? I don't think so...

Re: 5

[andrewducker]

They're definitely doing the best of all of the self-driving cars so far, and I think they know how badly lying has gone down for their competitors.

5

[danieldwilliam]

Are the Waymo cars doing comparable journeys to the average person in San Francisco and Phoenix?

Re: 5

[andrewducker]

They're operating a general taxi service there now. So within the limits of where they service, I assume so.

Re: 5

[movingfinger]

I am very, very skeptical of any self-reported numbers from Waymo or anyone else running a driverless car, because they are well known for massaging their "accident-free miles" data artificially, notably by running cars at night on virtually traffic-free streets. If Waymo is claiming these were rider-only cars, with no backup driver, I would want to see data (anonymized) of the times and distances etc of the rides at the very least. Were they actually hailed Waymos or were they driving a rider Waymo arranged for?

[calimac]

People don't seem to get this. It's not sufficient for self-driving cars to be, on average, safer than human drivers if, when they do fail at safety, they do so with a grotesque badness that's beyond normal human capacity. And there have been numerous such incidents in San Francisco.

[armiphlage]

Insurance companies will focus on the total cost; if the day-to-day savings outweigh the cost of a car occasionally smashing through a shopping mall food court, then they'll raise the rates charged to human drivers and force a swift changeover to automated vehicles.

[calimac]

That would be another example of insurance forcing people into doing things against their, and society's, interests.