Big Insurance is playing both sides
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
135 points (98.6% liked)
Technology
77795 readers
2259 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
This is the stupid shit I get instead of actual public transport and infrastructure. What a dumb timeline.
But that would only benefit the majority of the populace instead of making a few disgustingly wealthy men even wealthier.
In a "Our cars are faster" move?
These include illegal U-turns, aggressive lane switching, rolling through cross walks, and running red lights.
They like fines?
Oh, they do not have to pay 'fines'
However, if the car is driverless, there is likely no punishment.
According to the Atlanta Police Standard Operating Procedure, they are told not to issue citations to driverless vehicles.
The standards read in part:
“The court system is currently unable to process traffic citations for AVs with no human operator. If the vehicle violates a traffic law, where a citation would be warranted, the officer must write a report providing the details surrounding the incident and the law that was violated.”
After this incident a Waymo self-drove around a stopped school bus, there were no charges, but this article says that will change in 2026
I guess they want to pay them all in one lump sum once a year, cash in a black briefcase...
If this was an Onion article, the headline would have been "Waymo cars will now go through each hit pedestrian multiple times".
They will never make it into Europe this way.
Good thing.
Been waiting for this day since I was 14 😏
Yikes. I was just in SF for work. One of the things I liked best about wayno as a pedestrian is that you could confidently step out into the road in front of them and they would always slam their breaks so hard it never hit you, and the occupants would be all pissed about it
Risking your life to inconvenience other people is a weird form of fun I must say.
I've ridden in Waymos in SF a few times and I liked the fact that they drive like a granny. If they're changing programming I won't want to ride.
@tonytins@pawb.social a bit sensational way to frame this. There's no evidence that the cited examples in the original article are a result of the changes or that they're necessarily making changes that would make the Waymo Driver less safe.
There's that potential and the mentioned real problems are worth some attention regardless but some of these changes sound like they're motivated by just addressing situations where Waymo is unable to make the decisions any safe driver would because there are conflicting rules to follow for example..
They weren't driving safely anyway so lol
Just run over that pupil around the corner
This is the weirdest way to say this. What a weird bot.
Looking at their comment history, I don't think this is a bot. Just looks like someone with a tenuous grasp on English.