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Waymo’s data was derived from crashes reported under NHTSA’s Standing General Order (SGO), over 7.14 million fully autonomous miles driven 24/7 through the end of October 2023 across Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. That data was then compared to relevant human crash rates resulting in police reports, injuries, and/or property damage.

When considering all locations together, compared to the human benchmarks, the Waymo Driver demonstrated: An 85% reduction or 6.8 times lower crash rate involving any injury, from minor to severe and fatal cases (0.41 incidence per million miles for the Waymo Driver vs 2.78 for the human benchmark) A 57% reduction or 2.3 times lower police-reported crash rate (2.1 incidence per million miles for the Waymo Driver vs. 4.85 for the human benchmark) This means that over the 7.1 million miles Waymo drove, there were an estimated 17 fewer injuries and 20 fewer police-reported crashes compared to if human drivers with the benchmark crash rate would have driven the same distance in the areas we operate.

I think the point is that others are using this data as well, but not a target given there's no gigantic piggy bank to extract $ from.

I think it more closely speaks to how fast a startup in this space can move.

Main Entry: hack·er Pronunciation: \ˈha-kər\ Function: noun Date: 14th century

1 : one that hacks 2 : a person who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity <a tennis hacker> 3 : an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer 4 : a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system

Three out of four possible Merriam-Webster definitions are negative.

Not very convinced either. Could be a 1000 other reasons why sales increased.

This is a good example of the power of a karma or rating system on your website. Personally, I don't give a shit if I'm being rewarded (or penalized) on websites, and seeing a little number next to my screen name doesn't give me any sense of pride or validation.

With this little rant about feeling like they're 'wasting time' because a counter isn't being incremented with an arbitrary points system, it's obvious there's at least some people out there that absolutely need this add-on to contribute positively.

why is this at the top? Great you had a post that everyone liked. Do we really need to re-validate that it was a good post?

This article is hype. There's nothing overly special about selling an unlocked handset anywhere on planet earth.

Seriously? I despise this worn out arguement.

Sure, the parts might cost $155; but you can't do much without knowing how to connect the parts together, and without spending millions on finding the right combination of parts.

And then there's the software on top of that which others have noted.

then I thought, why implement something so useless in the first place?

"great, you can pay them average salaries and they will be so loyal to your giant company"

The point is that they become loyal to each other, the company reaping a reward is just a side benefit of people working towards a common goal.

I was on a similar 'elite' skunkworks dev team in a company of ~ 35,000 that had executive support, and the results were insanely good. You can't manipulate people to do this; You can however give them the freedom to make it happen.

Why so much hype around 'who' it might be?

Corporate apps are another real barrier to advancement. How many SAP (and other) apps out there work in IE6 only?

you're not alone, I find it bizarre but usually keep my mouth shut. What's the value play for me to leave youtube to use this?

not so fast...net neutrality (insert evil sound effect) will be the big decider.

I think the author is a little out of touch. Who's buying the Mac pro? Hordes of preppy college students who will use it browse the web and write up papers in Word. It's far from uber-niche.

agreed..I recall first studying his work in highschool math. and that was in Canada.

wave is doing a good job of replacing it for me! with:public = gold

That threw me off as well. The product idea (and even some code) is in place, the vision done, the roadmap well on it's way, and they've already identified they need to hire.

You're looking for an employee.

they do: it's called 20% time.