Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica • Hacker News Board

Re: Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

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Post by micromacrofoot » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 4:43 PM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #205

micromacrofoot wrote: post #54

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> Waymo is held to a significantly higher standard than human drivers. They have to be, as a machine can not be held accountable for a decision.

Waymo is not a machine, it is a corporation, and corporations can, in fact be held accountable for decisions (and, perhaps more to the point, for defects in goods they manufacture, sell, distribute, and/or use to provide services.)

For consumers corporate accountability mostly looks like $5 class action lawsuit checks, it's an entire different weight class compared to individual operator insurance claims

Re: Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

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Post by maerF0x0 » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:05 PM UTC

twosdai wrote: post #800

Spivak wrote: post #307

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People's standards for when they're willing to cede control over their lives both as the passenger and the pedestrian in the situation to a machine are higher than a human. And for not totally irrational reasons like machine follows programming and does not fear death, or with 100% certainty machine has bugs which will eventually end up killing someone for a really stupid reason—and nobody wants that to be them. Then…

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Re: Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

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Post by zx8080 » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 10:57 AM UTC

rapind wrote: post #479

zx8080 wrote: post #474

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> remained stopped, moved to the side of the road Stopped or moved? Is it allowed in CA to move car at all after a serious accident happens?

If the person got up and walked away I'm not sure what damage you'd be doing by reasonably removing your car from blocking others while waiting for police.

It can be not known to some, but it's not uncommon for person with serious injures to walk and run in the first monents after accident. Injuries can sometimes be hidden.

So "walk away" cannot be a legal criteria for decision to move the car or not. There can be some very serious consequences for the "but I did not know" in case of the following collapse or any other damage.