Waymo may be currently safer than human drivers, but this right here is why I don't believe for a second they'll stay that way. People will complain it took to long to get somewhere because "stupid car was following all the rules!" and they'll be programmed to become more aggressive and dangerous (and due to regulatory capture they'll get away with this of course). I've already noticed this in San Francisco.

Americans are increasingly adopting the kind of mindset Israelis have, where following the rules makes you a sucker. https://www.thejc.com/judaism/jewish-words/freier-fa15k306

Many Americans desperately want to believe that other countries' healthcare systems are "just as bad" as a form of coping.

Look at when all the "No Kings" protests are happening: on the weekend. Because there is no way the vast majority of Americans can go on strike, because healthcare is tied to employment. This is why healthcare is never getting "fixed" in America--it's doing its job quite well.

Kinda ironic that a post about attention to detail was so hard to read. Why is the font size so small?

Someone I used to work for was borrowing all kinds of money with seemingly little scrutiny and when she couldn't pay it back the worst possible thing happened. https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/09/family-four-murder-suicide...

I understand tragedies happen, bad choices leading to these type of outcomes, but can never accept when children suffer. They did nothing wrong.

How would this reduce or increase traffic? The demand is staying the same.

Presumably the increased supply of "drivers" going to SFO will lower rideshare prices for everyone and make public transit less appealing

Public transit connections to SFO are shit-tier. Rideshare prices have little to do with it.

I've taken BART and it's fine but expensive (there's an airport fee that's something like $8 per ticket each way). For groups/families I could see rideshare winning on both cost and convenience.

You can BART from there to downtown, that beats a lot of cities. (yes, yes, BART quality can vary, but still.)

What about the rest of the Bay?

Waymo can deliver as many rides as Uber with a small fraction of the number of vehicles.

And they're all electric.

surge pricing FTW!

Sounds like you'd be better off living in a less remote area.

The positives far outweigh the negatives.

One of the houses across the street from me had its driveway dug up, all the way from the street to inside the garage, for what I first thought was for putting a bathroom or something in the downstairs level. When I walked past the old pipes they took out they were full of roots.

This reminded me of how in the early 2000s I was taught to enclose the content of SCRIPT tags in HTML comments, e.g.

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