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Move Fast and Break Nothing | Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT.
(www.theatlantic.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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Yep, the DARPA Grand Challenge of 2004 spurred the modern self-driving car era. But attempts at self driving cars were made as early as the 70s - earlier, depending on how you define autonomous driving. And Waymo has had driveless cars on roads since 2017.