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		IrishTechie 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and m... Americans only spend 3% of their time driving, so it's maybe closer to 300k than 10m. Still not scalable at that though so the key will be driving that 20:1 up, which seems very possible given enough time.

wffurr 5 months ago | [–]

If they keep pushing the hours between requests down like I saw on https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Estimated-number-of-full..., that might be feasible.

petra 5 months ago | [–]

What determines whether 300k is scalable ?

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