Incidents involving robots have been exploding when they get deployed, exactly the opposite of what the robot manufacturers promise. Here’s a new tragic case, where Waymo uses language that seems rather… unaware.

A Waymo spokesperson confirmed the incident details and said the company sends sincere condolences to the dog owner. “The investigation is ongoing, however, the initial review confirmed that the system correctly identified the dog….”

Condolences.

Perhaps if Waymo didn’t correctly identify the dog, that dog might have lived?

Hard to know what Waymo thinks they are doing by saying robots in public are aware of what they kill.

The robots are turning in worse and worse results, indicating they might be learning how to be very bad at their job.

Monthly reported incidents involving Waymo driverless operations have increased six-fold this year, including instances where they interfered with emergency services, according to a comment letter from SF officials. City data also says that reported incidents involving driverless Waymo and Cruise vehicles more than tripled from 24 to 87 between January and April.

Next step, watch someone simply change the Waymo algorithm (or the robot itself) from safe to unsafe mode and any dogs identified in city streets or sidewalks quickly are killed.

Call it a robot going into Thomas Edison mode because he infamously paid children cash to find and kidnap dogs (e.g. neighbors’ pets) for him to kill.