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@doubleuenbeeeh
May 25, 2026 at 12:25 pm
Why does Sal Khan’s uncle need to work at all, let alone drive your Uber?
@ohemmehey561
May 25, 2026 at 12:52 pm
Waymo and AI will destroy us all. This lady is no friend of humanity .
@QasimAlKhuzaie
May 25, 2026 at 1:22 pm
All sunshine and rainbows until you look for someone to hold accountable
@davethestoner
May 25, 2026 at 1:43 pm
have you not seen the driverless cars all stacking up and blocking each other in america? its brilliant to watch! Just another means of control isnt it.
@ForAnAngel
May 25, 2026 at 3:19 pm
No because that doesn’t happen.
@rizzlethegreat9682
May 25, 2026 at 4:45 pm
@ForAnAngelyes it does. The videos are available on all social media platforms.
@ForAnAngel
May 25, 2026 at 6:55 pm
@rizzlethegreat9682 Ok, do you think it is impossible for them to fix it?
@vatsalrohilla5878
May 25, 2026 at 1:47 pm
Try it on Indian roads.
@joeroche552
May 25, 2026 at 1:59 pm
And if you enjoy driving?
@rizzlethegreat9682
May 25, 2026 at 4:46 pm
They’ll say go to a racetrack.
@MiaBurdick
May 25, 2026 at 2:04 pm
I would love them to dig more into the statistical framework used to understand if this would actually be applicable to a vast population. Too many times are statistics cited without enough vetting of methodology and assumptions that could hinder its reliability. I understand the sample size is large but I expect more on the explanation if we are using this as the main crux for fully automating transportation
@jjrod80
May 25, 2026 at 3:00 pm
Statistics can also be manipulated to fit any narratic someone wants.
@rizzlethegreat9682
May 25, 2026 at 4:42 pm
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned lies, and Statistics. Look for who gathered all of the data and what their motivation was.
@VFL0519
May 25, 2026 at 2:07 pm
Remember when society had a safety net? In case everything else feel through you could still UBER to make ends meet. Not anymore. What’s left? Selling things and crime?
@wynnejulius2251
May 25, 2026 at 2:07 pm
Constantly promoting incompetent people. All tech fail as time pass. What happens when this tech fails. Guess the current shareholders would have sold the shares by then. The world want less tech not more.
@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia
May 25, 2026 at 2:07 pm
A nice marketing ploy for something that’s bad with unintended consequences
@jjrod80
May 25, 2026 at 2:59 pm
I think someone needs to create an AI that can do the job of a ceo. Then we’ll see how quick they are to praise this bullshit tech. And these morons keep pushing safety statistics as if they actually care about safety. This is about profit and not having to pay employees, pure and simple.
@Indianadixon
May 25, 2026 at 3:04 pm
Boooo waymo!
@Indianadixon
May 25, 2026 at 3:05 pm
I agree with Dax Flame, I’d feel “way mo” safe if these self-driving cars weren’t on the road
@Indianadixon
May 25, 2026 at 3:06 pm
Has way mo ever heard of a thing called a subway? Or a metro?
@J_aayyy
May 25, 2026 at 3:20 pm
I reported this for misleading thumbnail. these don’t exist. saying something that doesn’t exist is safer…. such crap. These will never work in winter in snow.
@snackgobblin
May 25, 2026 at 3:52 pm
Gross.
@wags2413
May 25, 2026 at 4:08 pm
They don’t like to talk about how much money they’re losing. I believe it’s over 13 billion dollars, and counting. Sorta like Uber who didn’t turn a profit for nearly 10 years. Meantime they are devastating local economies and destroying the lives of small business owners. Where’s all those billions of dollars coming from? Saudi Arabia, Russia, tech multi billionaires. Are you comfortable with these people as overlords? And who isn’t going to buy their cheap junk when the middle class is gone? What kind of “capitalism” is this?
@Illiteratechimp
May 25, 2026 at 4:11 pm
False.
Think about it: how can that possibly be true when billionaires have made sure there is no accountability?
Driverless cars will continue running over kids and give billionaires yet greater and greater excuses to redesign our cities and towns to be even LESS friendly to humans.
If we allow this scourge to continue, we will be forced off of our crosswalks and even sidewalks in favor of heartless speed machines with 0 accountability.
Resist the tech bros.
Say no to driverless cars.
Arrest the CEOs for their many murders.
@amanimaniac
May 25, 2026 at 4:48 pm
I’ve seen too many videos of these cars running red lights, driving the wrong way on the street, making left turns from the right lane (in traffic), driving into a blocked off construction area and just circling because it can’t find the way out, and so many more. The best is when they all try to leave their home parking lot at the same time in the morning and just end up honking at each other. Starting to see more videos of passengers contacting support in the car for these fiascos, only to find they are (probably) speaking to an overseas customer service person who can’t halp and wastes time before transfering to someone that has some tech access and can see what’s going on. Then they still can’t figure it out. One guy got so fed up, he just got out and walked away. This may have a place in the future, when everything is straight lines and grids, but the tech is nowhere near adaptive enough to navigate urban areas effectively.
@RebeccaMorris-v6m
May 25, 2026 at 4:51 pm
The ‘driverless’ cars we have now are remote controlled by people in India who don’t have a driver’s license! What’s worse is trusting a computer more that is consistently proving itself harmful and untrustworthy.
@llicit1833
May 25, 2026 at 4:54 pm
10X safer (36,000 lives saved in US alone)
Opens up a lot of time for more productive / entertaining things
Lots of public spaces freed up from just being parking spaces
Sounds pretty positive to me – probably had similar pushback when transitioning from horse and buggy to cars in the first place
@owhite2445
May 25, 2026 at 5:07 pm
wait till bro hears about trains
@owhite2445
May 25, 2026 at 5:00 pm
society is SO NOT in the mood for these oligarch tech freaks.
havent you all ruined the world enough already?
@Richyray76522
May 25, 2026 at 5:36 pm
And when AI goes off the rails? Its not rocket science
@abidin-nc
May 25, 2026 at 6:07 pm
Let’s set up a scenario: An autonomous car is either going to hit a family with children right in front of it, or it will swerve and risk my life. Which one should it choose? If it chooses to risk the passenger inside, which is me, why would I even buy this car? After all, I am paying money for it.
@tierraedwards117
May 25, 2026 at 7:22 pm
Leave the World Behind (Netflix) showed us why this isn’t a good idea.