Waymo (aka Google) admits that it trains its robotaxis to break the law. When WaPo reporter finds robotaxis fail to stop for pedestrians in marked crosswalk 70% of the time, Waymo says it follows "social norms" rather than laws.
Expert explains: When robotaxis obey law, they don't go fast enough to compete successfully with Uber, so Google execs ordered engineers to ignore laws.
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@BenRossTransit Yup, and the problem with letting robotaxi fleets follow "norms" is their unique ability to subtly and unaccountably change those "norms" by changing their programming. I wrote about this last year: https://scott.mn/2023/08/19/bad_incentives_make_autonomous_vehicles_unsafe/
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