Is this a success? There was still an incident. I'd argue this was them being transparent about a failure

TeMPOraL 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Being transparent about such incidents is also what stops them from potentially becoming a business/industry-killing failures. They're doing the right thing here, but they also surely realize how much worse it would be if they tried to deny or downplay it.

	▲	xnx 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> they also surely realize how much worse it would be if they tried to deny or downplay it. Indeed. Waymo is a much more thoughtful and responsible company than Cruise, Uber, or Tesla. "Cruise admits to criminal cover-up of pedestrian dragging in SF, will pay $500K penalty" https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/cruise-fine-criminal-cov...

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direwolf20 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They handled an unpredictable emergency situation better than any human driver.

	▲	mitthrowaway2 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Was it unpredictable? They drove past a blind corner (parked SUV) in a school zone. I'm constantly slowing down in these situations as I expect someone might run out at any second. Waymo seemed to default to the view that if it can't see anyone then nobody is there.