Post #1657527
2026-04-25 07:00 UTC
Replies (28)
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@Samosthenurus@aus.social 2026-04-25 08:47
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk also any cyclists inconvenienced by this get to kick said executives in the shin.
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@Paul@social.lightlyseared.online 2026-04-25 09:50
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk Surely, if self driving cars can't respect the Highway Code then they shouldn't be allowed on public roads. @GracelessHippo@mastodon.ie
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@Gabs@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-25 12:41
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk how about fire? I like fire...
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@MichaelPorter@ottawa.place 2026-04-25 13:31
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk Be a shame if someone collided with one of these while carrying their brick collection home.
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@zilahu@mastodon.laca.dev 2026-04-25 14:26
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk @popularposts@masto.ai or just fine the passenger. Without them waymo goes out of business.
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@alan@mindly.social 2026-04-25 15:37
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk Perhaps ironically, in some places, it's "normal practice" to flip vehicles blocking a bike lane onto their roofs.
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@ZDL@mstdn.social 2026-04-25 15:39
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk Or just ban robotaxis.
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@CStamp@mastodon.social 2026-04-25 15:48
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk And does jail time for hitting and killing bicyclists?
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@geeksam@ruby.social 2026-04-25 17:14
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk it would be a real shame if cyclists started carrying pocketknives to slash those Waymos' tires. Oops, my apologies: tyres.
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@Bobsee@hachyderm.io 2026-04-25 18:54
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk #4. Make UK #google reps ride bikes to work.
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@KarlHeinzHasliP@climatejustice.social 2026-04-25 18:56
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk And as those cars already record everything, they get caught 100% of the time!
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@mdsumner@rstats.me 2026-04-25 19:09
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk well human drivers can't so why would robots
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@stufromoz@aus.social 2026-04-25 22:55
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk also… if you see one, open its doors. It can’t move with open doors
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@Nigel_Lake@mastodon.world 2026-04-26 00:22
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk Great idea - but let's not forget the company... Treat breaches collectively and have multiplying fines. First offence £125k Second offense £250k Third £500k Fourth $1m $2m, $4m, $8m etc... These amounts are trivial compared to the money spent making these robots...
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@rupert@mastodon.nz 2026-04-26 07:09
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk This is the sort of accountability sink I can support.
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@JosephLord@union.place 2026-04-26 07:34
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk Maybe even more effective for the whole Waymo system to be considered a single driver with a single licence. When it gets 12 points the whole service is banned. And fines can be related to global revenue of Google.
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@acs@mastodon.scot 2026-04-26 09:01
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk I wonder how the banks would handle a chargeback based on a request because the supplier didn't deliver a safe and legal service.
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@catdraoichta@meow.social 2026-04-26 09:03
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk Turns out you can't take an AI to the Hague for bombing a school and killing 600 children, either.
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@fluffgar@mastodon.scot 2026-04-26 09:36
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk Fines should always be proportional to income.
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@adityabhaskar@hachyderm.io 2026-04-26 09:46
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk no one at the top probably has driven themselves in years. By the time we get down the chain to the ones whose lives are inconvenienced by not driving, they'll be too inconsequential to change policy. I'd instead suggesr we park a bike in front and behind every Waymo in the bike lane. They block the lane, we block their cars.
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@punissuer@universeodon.com 2026-04-26 11:32
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk no. Since they already said that's the thing they are programmed to do, it's no longer a traffic accident waiting to happen, but a number of premeditated assaults with a deadly weapon. Forfeit all those things immediately and incarcerate the whole chain of command.
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@svavar@masto.svavar.com 2026-04-26 12:30
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk Waymo uses remote workers in the Philippines to drive their cars. Maybe start by requiring them to hold a UK driving license. https://www.autoblog.com/news/waymo-uses-remote-workers-in-the-philippines-to-assist-its-self-driving-cars
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@danimrich@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 13:40
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk 3. Once the license is suspended, Google has to take the cars off the road for the duration of the suspension. Otherwise they would just keep switching executives.
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@bhaugland@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 14:07
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk what Waymo is saying is that cyclists are not their customers so they don’t count. This is how capitalism treats people
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@zenkat@sfba.social 2026-04-26 14:19
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk This article is clickbait bullshit. I am an avid cyclist who lives in San Francisco, a city filled with robotaxis. I feel MUCH safer next to a Waymo than I do by human-driven cars. Ubers and Lyfts regularly block bike lanes. They also text while driving, serve into my lane, drive erratically, and generally cannot be trusted to keep their eyes in the road. Waymos, on the other hand, have 360-degree vision, drive conservatively, respect my hand signals, and consistently follow the generally-accepted rules of the road. Studies show they are 8x safer than human drivers. Which is a low bar, when you think about it, because many humans are lousy drivers (at least some of the time).
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@DavidPenington@aus.social 2026-04-27 01:34
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk Australian taxi drivers break the law when picking up & dropping off passengers all the time. Waymo are making common practice explicit. I'm not sure what the appropriate response is, because passengers want/need pick up & drop off & legal stopping places in CBDs are rare. Perhaps explicitly allowing a 60 second stop in a no stopping zone by a licenced taxi etc would be appropriate - sonething to give them somewhere legal to stop on every block, then enforce no double parking etc.
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@Seruko@mstdn.social 2026-05-03 15:23
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk it was foreseeable that the companies would weasel out of consequences, but it still boggles the mind
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@kkarhan@c.im 2026-05-04 10:17
@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk I have an even more briliant idea: - Make the execs personally liable for their products. - And don't allow them to just settle for money, cuz they did so on purpose, which means criminal intent!