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You say all this, yet waymo is demonstrably safer than the average driver.

Uphill in snow maybe you’ll have to take the wheel, I’ll give you that.

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Waymo hasn't tried driving outside its comfort zone, so I'll argue that it's not demonstrated.

Have you driven in SF?

No, never been to SF, I have no idea how people drive there or what the conditions are. Except that they're very different from where I drive (except when I'm in the town centre) - roads without sidewalks, mostly no signal lights, snow a large part of the year, and other special conditions.

Good thing that all airports follow similar standards and are all standardized in terms of lighting, signage, etc.

That is not quite accurate. There are certainly standards for airport markings, but there are many non-standard airports... especially when flying at anything smaller than an international airport.

(And yes, even airliners will sometimes land at small regional airports.)

Mate, have you driven in Mumbai? Hell, even in Rome? SF is nothing.

So clearly self driving cars are completely useless because they cannot handle Mumbai traffic.

Humans should also abstain from driving outside of their comfort zones.

Regardless, they don’t and do mostly fine

How has this been demonstrated? They have certainly had their share of crashes already.

Yes https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2309/2309.01206.pdf

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