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Move Fast and Break Nothing | Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT.
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this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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Except for people just walking around getting irradiated at a high enough level to provide feedback for the taxi's radar. I assume people will start getting cancer... The cancer levels might be funny like 98% on people's left side or maybe only on people who walk on the sunny or shaded side of busy streets.
I'd give it a few years for the cancers to start showing up.
They're using lidar not radar, it doesn't cause cancer, but prolonged exposure can damage your eyes because it's basically just blasting IR rays 24/7
Even radar would not cause cancer. At least not that I know of