regardless of whether or not it generates speeding tickets or other inconveniences.

Speeding increases the distances needed to stop. That’s really important in school zones, where there’s kids crossing the street. Not only that, Waymo’s cars can’t identify school buses that are stopped to pick up and drop off students and tend to drive right past them.

The only reason they haven’t killed any kids yet is because they’re kept in small areas of cities away from schools. If you don’t believe me, here’s a video covering it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcq0tjmvGOs

And focusing on developing self-driving cars as robotaxis is silly when there’s a way better solution: re-zoning cities to make them more walkable and building more publiv transport. Removing cars from cities is way safer, and reduces issues like congestion and noise pollution.

And then there’s the issues of major tech companies trying to build up monopolies and fund fascist takeovers of the government (i.e. Elon Musk and Tesla), but that’s tangential to the main argument.

That’s my opinion, anyway. I won’t downvote you, I only downvote comments unhelpful to the overall conversation, you’re not being unhelpful, I just disagree with you.

I know you think you’re being polite with this, but you’re actually being incredibly condescending here.