Oddbean new post about login | logout There’s a huge gap in the perception of self-driving cars between San Franciscans and everyone else. And it’s not because of the hype cycles that dominate SF tech - it’s because SF people replaced Uber with Waymo a year ago and haven’t looked back at the comparatively-terrible product of Uber.
Damn Uber is terrible?!
Compared to Waymo? Yea, very terrible.
Waymo is Way mo ₿etter
Damn
Not true
My understanding was that cyclists and other drivers are significantly less happy? Though it's not like human drivers in SF are amazing. https://art19.com/shows/the-urbanist-agenda/episodes/9e713263-e5e3-4db2-b290-ed85b0b7e959
Nah, almost all the cases people make a big deal of are actually cases where a human would have done the same, or worse. There’s a lot of people who like to scream in SF, very few for legitimate reasons. There’s obviously some teething issues with the tech, but overall it’s almost certainly better than your average Uber driver.
Get the hell out of SF if you can and then you won’t have to worry about if Waymo or Uber is better. Best life decision I made in 2019 was moving away from that shit hole. Tech scenes in other parts of the country and world are way better too.
Same. SF˃SEA˃freedom.