I’ve posted this here before - I saw a Waymo do an illegal U-turn in the middle of a busy six lane city street in the middle of morning rush hour traffic one morning. I was shocked. This story is shocking that a Waymo would go this crazy without any safety feature to stop it. The passengers easily could have been injured. Its surprising that the police have no “kill switch” to stop them.
In 2025 an estimated 36,640 people died in U.S. traffic crashes, with another 2 million injured.
Vehicles using Tesla FSD (Supervised) experience one major collision roughly every 5.0 to 5.3 million miles. In comparison, the general U.S. average results in an accident about once every 660,000 to 700,000 miles, making Tesla’s system statistically about 7 to 8 times safer.
Insurance will end up being cheaper on the self driving cars.
About three weeks ago, I saw a shocking one in Palo Alto, California just 3 or miles from Waymo HQ. I was at El Camino and Page Mill. I was the front car in one of the two left-turn lanes. There were two left-turn lanes on the other side of the intersection with Waymo being the front car in the median lane.
Their left-turn arrow turned green and the Waymo started moving...then stopped dead half-way into the intersection. Just sat there. People behind start going around the dead car.
It sat there maybe 8-10 seconds and finally started moving again. No accident, but it could have been a bad one if it had screwed up a few seconds before or after.
Our modern world! Ha!
Heck with the police ... the PASSENGERS need a big effing red button to stop the damn thing. In technical engineering parlance, it's called the "OH SHIT!!! Switch".