Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now

And when something goes wrong they will blame cosmic radiation.

Looking back at this 2 year old video self driving cars are still not common at all and there are still many issues to be solved. I consider this video the least objective and most sensational of all videos this channel has made. The second least objective video is the one that tells electricity doesn't run via wires, but via fields - without ever using the word "capacitance".

Lol, basically an advertisment for waymo. Smh.

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The technology is 10 years away from being affordable

I think this would be game changer for various reasons. It would be great if it could reduce drunk drivers.

Please stop making fully sponsored videos. They undermine the value and credibility of your brand

Please stop making fully sponsored videos. They undermine the value and credibility of your brand.

We need this technology soon because of our population

This video was just offered to me in my YT feed. I'm not going to watch it.
Look, I get they can be safer than human drivers, believe me. Not only do I live in Austin which has become very dangerous to drive in, especially the last year or two, but I drive for Uber.
So I have dealt with many many Cruise vehicles over the last year. I'm telling you, they are not ready. This from my observations of watching lots of them every time I drive which is several times a week, but also stories from my passengers that have had rides in them.
They will suddenly stop for no apparent reason. They will not always go through a green light. They will drive in the bike lanes. They have bunched up in narrow roads effectively blocking traffic which includes emergency vehicles. The simply do not process problems like a human would and has to several times a night like not turning narrow enough to avoid a big truck parked on the corner. Instead that one simply stopped, blocking the lane. They don't stop on a narrow street to let another one go by.
I have seen one go from the far right all the way over to the left curb cutting off a human and not signaling. Just last night a passenger told me her first one drove off as she touched the handle which is supposed to open the door. The replacement went the wrong way down a one way street. She cancelled and got out.
The list goes on.
Finally, they are literally after my job which at 64 I don't want to have to look for something else.
They are now gone and I say good riddance.
What is needed is better human drivers. Austin needs a dedicated traffic police force, but is another story.

What a disgusting shill. Propaganda for driverless cars, paid for by a driverless car?

My argument?
I like driving, driving cars are boring, driveless cars cannot drive as well and prect every single human behaviour on the road. So no

Who's here after watching other videos stating that Veritasium is shilling for Waymo?

This should have been taken down by now. It's an embarrassment of misinformation.

I unsubscribed over this: it's sponsored content and dubiously sourced. So freakin disappointing, mate, you should be ashamed of yourself. Hope you got a ton of money (because you sold your credibility as an educator)

"Full disclosure, this video is sponsored by Waymo and I've decided to swap out My scientific skeptics hat for my far more valuable propaganda one, so I can get that bag."

Taarzan the wonder car😂😂

What about people who are struggling to get by and there only source of income is driving

95% of car accident are caused by human driven cars is a really bad statistical comparison (I'm assuming the stats says that 5% accident caused by self driven cars and other 95% are caused by human driven)
A tad bit more fair comparison would be x% of total human drivev cars caused accidents vs y% of total self driving cars caused accidents.

As someone with severe anxiety and panic attacks that make me have impaired decision making during driving causing me unable to drive, I can’t WAIT for these things to not be hella expensive someday so I can stop paying for uber

Ads are getting smarter

Instead of driverless cars, maybe america should focus on making their roads actually safe to drive on. butcash must flow

why not get into a bus they not drived by as well as their net emissions would be less than any electric car if public participation is good

Nice ad shill, you’re not an educator anymore

This video is basically a paid for advert 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I swear I am driving in traffic with driverless cars but not from Waymo or any other intelligent system.

This aged poorly.

I can’t wait until my car drives me, I will trust my car more than other ppl on the road

You already have more money than you need and you still go ahead and take the bag. You've lost all your credibility.

Qué bueno el último capítulo de City of Nations

Cool thanks

Wow

Infomercial

I am happy and excited to get into auto cars but still I am scared to get into a elevator!

SELLOUT!

i used to watch you, but this video has made me lose all faith in your integrity

Aug 10, 2023, NPR writes, “Self-driving car firms want California regulators to allow for more vehicles on San Francisco streets. Police and fire departments cite many times when autonomous vehicles botched rescue operations.”

I was one of the first viewers of your channel and faithfully watched each new video as they dropped. However, your channel's integrity and mission have become questionable and murky. That said, when it comes to science, "murky" just won't cut it. George Orwell stated, "There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad." However, in this day and age it also means you might not be as profitable, which apparently in this instance, wasn't a price y'all were willing to pay. Until the day comes when science and teaching, not profit, serve as your primary motivators, like Naboo from the Mighty Boosh, I have to turn my back on y'all (cue appropriate music while I nail this 180).

It is August 2023 and still no big improvements and no cars on most cities.

Driverless or autonomous vehicles: Tech is there, but the supporting context is not (e.g. other vehicles on the streets, driven by PEOPLE and uneven road conditions/driving rules/regulations around the world). Under these circumstances, the best scenario is using tech for enhancing the driver experience and capability, including importantly, the road safety. Kinda' similar to the human pilots' flying capability enhanced hugely by the onboard computer 'assistants'. Personally, I can't wait for the true driverless cars to become as normalized in our lives as the building elevators are...

The future shouldnt be expensive, largely single occupancy vehicles, driving people from endpoint to endpoint. It should be more focused on building society such that we can use public transportation more.

Yes a hackable car that's what I want...... I don't think so

they stall randomly all over the place, block buses and bike lanes, drive through and stall in fire and police scenes

There is no driverless car and there will never be - even if it drives fully autonomously.
In that case the driver just isn't a human but instead a silicon wafer somewhere deep inside the car.

Solid video but a really car centric conclusion

Would like to hear an update on how Waymo is doing.

Saying its human error does not actually solve the probelm

The autonomous car WILL have to drive on the dame road as humans.

How do they solve the problem?

Man you really sucking it up to the AI ..

While automation is nearly immune to human error, it can come with its own errors if you don’t design the system correctly. We MUST demand accountability to the organizations providing autonomous vehicle services!
Computers also can’t think critically like people can, so some components of road infrastructure could potentially need a fundamental redesign to accommodate autonomous vehicles on a large scale.