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Driverless cars may already be safer than human drivers

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I’m a journalist with a computer science master’s degree. In the past I’ve written for the Washington Post, Ars Technica, and other publications. Understanding AI explores how AI works and how it’s changing the world. If you like this article, please sign up to have future articles sent straight to your inbox. August was an eventful month for driverless taxis in San Francisco. On August 10, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to allow Google’s Waymo and GM’s Cruise to begin charging customers for driverless taxi rides across the city. A week later, Cruise vehicles were involved in two serious crashes within hours of one another. The next day, the California Department of Motor Vehicles demanded that Cruise cut its driverless taxi fleet in half while these crashes were investigated. A few days later, New York Times reporter Cade Metz appeared on the Times’s flagship podcast, The Daily, to discuss these developments and the state of the self-driving industry. Metz argued tha

Driverless cars may already be safer than human drivers I learned a lot reading dozens of Waymo and Cruise crash reports. Timothy B. Lee Aug 31, 2023 83 52 7 Share I’m a journalist with a computer science master’s degree. In the past I’ve written for the Washington Post, Ars Technica, and other publications. Understanding AI explores how AI works and how it’s changing the world. If you like this article, please sign up to have future articles sent straight to your inbox. Subscribe August was an eventful month for driverless taxis in San Francisco. On August 10, the California Public Utilities

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