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Man trapped inside driverless Waymo car as it spins in circles
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You have some real confidence in people's common sense. Every vehicle in the fleet would be blown inside a week.
you know trains have emergency stops that any passenger can pull, right? and yet i have never ever ever ever heard of that happening, despite trains regularly being literally full of passengers.
It does happen, just very rarely. Partly because, at least in Germany, that is a criminal offense. Which would be the same in a car by the way.
One big difference is that someone pulling a train estop for no good reason has to deal with other train passengers who would be unhappy that their trip is suddenly delayed for no good reason.
It's a different dynamic if you're alone or with friends/family in a car, even if pushing that estop is on a highway where it's even more dangerous.