Why on earth would Waymo’s readiness have anything to do with Uber’s? That’s completely absurd. Waymo has no fatalities in over 10M miles. You can argue about whether that is enough, but one company with a crappy product is no indication about the quality of a competitor. 

Yeah, and Waymo was that 5600k miles (Uber was the 13). And that was a year and a half ago, using data that was even older. At the end of 2018, Google reported a disengagement rate of one every 14,000 miles in California. Note also that disengagements happen for reasons other than an imminent crash, so just because…

It would be awful if true. I tend to believe Waymo here when they say it is garbage, because frankly it’s not credible. More to the point they are driving over a million miles a year in California, 36 crashes over that distance (I believe none of which have been directly attributed to the self driving software), is…

We’ll see how well they do. If it was Tesla saying they were doing this, I wouldn’t buy it, but Waymo seems to be both the tech leader, and reasonably cautious about their deployment. I don’t think they’d be doing it if they didn’t think it would work well. I do imagine that since they will be running a mix, they will…

I mean they have it, or will be there very shortly. They are prepping to run cars in Arizona with passengers and without safety drivers: Waymo tells riders to get ready for fully driverless rides

Opera is based on Chromium (the open source core of Chrome) these days, so I’m not shocked it would fail similarly. Microsoft is going to be switching Edge to a Chromium backend as well, but hasn’t made that switch in the production version yet (it’s supposed to be coming soon).

Total number of crashes: 36

Yeah Kinja has been broken like that for me on Chrome for a while. Edge is working fine for what that’s worth.

Ex-educator was right there for you. Regardless we can hope she’ll be fired, this is not someone who should be teaching kids.

I bet you are the sort of person who gets upset when someone says something begs the question, when not invoking the logical fallacy.

It is, though of course pretty much every site works like this (except for certain special promotions). You’re right though that it doesn’t bode well if these are the sorts of ads that get bid.

At the top level, the big boys work pretty hard to avoid it, but the problem is that slots can be sold through several levels of ad network resulting in some pretty strange people serving the ad, especially for low value ads. It is telling that G/O Media’s ad provider doesn’t seem to be able to control it though, it’s…

They are clearly in a bad situation with regards to ads. In a good environment stuff like this wouldn’t get through because reputable ad networks will try to block this stuff, and more to the point, real ads should be paying more than malware, which is pretty bottom of the barrel.

I didn’t see any announcers claiming it? Once they saw the replay, they seemed to agree he was nowhere near the ball, and lamented that the ump couldn’t review it.

Yeah, I can’t see what Sanchez was so pissed about. I mean it was an obvious make up call, but dude, you just lied about foul tipping a ball you didn’t get close to, and the umpire knows it. He should have already been out, and definitely should have expected to not get any close calls, and this pitch was close…

Those install flash player scams aren’t anything they are doing on purpose. It’s some sort of malicious ad (internet sites rarely sell ads directly, instead they sell to networks that bid out the ad slots in real time, meaning that the site publisher has very little control of what actually appears).

That’s certainly the trend for baseball and football, is it true for basketball and hockey too? I haven’t noticed that, but I don’t follow those sports as closely.

Sure Baghdad Bob was over 15 years ago, but really he deserves to be out there more.