[lordofmoria]

Thanks for doing the math and making this concrete!

I think it’s interesting because:

1) it gives Waymo a higher target to shoot for - it hasn’t “solved” self-driving because its safer than the average driver. I am so impressed by Waymo, but I feel like some of this article smacked of premature “mission accomplished” vibes. The fact that it just accepted the comparison to average without caveat is an example of that. 2) As a matter of policy, everyone can agree that a Waymo ride home for the tipsy is good, but where policy will have issues is convincing good drivers such as my dad to take Waymos everywhere. Not to mention most drivers irrationally think they’re way better than average - that will affect policy in a real way.