Andrew Miller

Sure, it's going to slow down reaching scale with these things, but there is so much

distrust of big tech and of self-driving cars generally, I think that the appropriate strategy of going slow, being safe, and showing that you're not harmful and you're not cavalier is so important if we're going to get the good outcomes that I think this technology can give us.

Well, and it's important to note that one cruise incident, and that was a severe injury.

It wasn't a death.

Yeah.

But what we have is, courtesy of the state of California, and I hope this is something that the federal government, they're being encouraged to adopt it.

I hope they do.

There are very strong transparency requirements.

So we know about every incident that a Waymo's been involved in, and we've combed through them, and we know that Waymo is safer than human drivers already.

You could argue the denominator isn't there compared to the hundreds of millions of miles that humans drive in the United States every year versus the relatively small fleet.

So we can't know.

But...

Looking at where that data is coming from, San Francisco is not an easy city to drive in.

It is a complex environment.

If it's achieving safety there, I find it hard to believe that it would find Topeka to be a much more difficult place to work.

Well, I was writing about this on my newsletter that Waymo had an incident a few months back where they killed a bodega cat in San Francisco.

You're right.

Would a human have made that mistake?

I'm not sure.

But every time one of these vehicles makes a mistake, we notice it.