As someone who has to share the street with inexcusably bad Cruise vehicles (Waymo vehicles seem to be fine, FWIW) this reads like "I think it sucks that the news focuses on the negative impact on others from my personal choices, because it really is very nice for me".
No you should read “this thing is amazing for human advancements and to reduce traffic death globally and it also works pretty amazingly in SF besides a few hiccups”
For you the rider. Everyone else in this thread who has to deal with these vehicles in traffic is saying otherwise.
If these things are perfect, they’d save about thirty lives per year in SF. That’s not nothing, but it’s not some unparalleled achievement either. Particularly when the cost is putting a large and vulnerable set of low-income people entirely out of work with nothing on the horizon to replace those jobs.
Is it the future? Sure. Is it the future we want? I’m unconvinced.
