As of the start of 2024 there are no self-driving cars deployed, despite what companies have tried to project.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
What would count as true or false
Judged as of 1 January 2024 on the claim's literal wording that no self-driving cars were deployed. False if driverless vehicles without a safety driver were carrying members of the public in commercial service at that date (for example, Waymo's paid driverless rides in Phoenix and San Francisco). Mostly false if that was so, but the deployments were small, geofenced and remotely supported, so that the claim overstates a real gap between company projections and what was deployed (for example, read as no general or personally owned self-driving cars). Mixed if, read in the context Brooks gives, the claim plainly means no deployment at scale, and the evidence shows only limited deployments. True only if no driverless vehicles were in public service at that date.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (2)
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E1 Waymo to launch commercial robotaxi service in Austin by end of the year | TechCrunch TechCrunch · 13 March 2024
“Waymo also operates a robotaxi service in Phoenix, San Francisco and soon Los Angeles.”
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E2 Waymo to launch commercial robotaxi service in Austin by end of the year | TechCrunch TechCrunch · 13 March 2024
“In August, Waymo began operating a commercial service 24 hours a day, seven days a week throughout the city of San Francisco after receiving approval from the CPUC.”
Reasoning
E1 and E2 (March 2024) show that Waymo ran a commercial robotaxi service in Phoenix and San Francisco, and that the San Francisco service ran citywide from an August whose year is not stated. Neither item says the vehicles carried the public without a safety driver, which is the test in the criteria, and neither gives the scale of the deployments. So the evidence does not settle whether the claim is false or mostly false.
Cite this claim
Rodney Brooks, “As of the start of 2024 there are no self-driving cars deployed, despite what companies have tried to project.” (said 1 January 2024). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_0e911d2ad82f, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_0e911d2ad82f
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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