What we can (and can't) learn from Waymo's safety strategy - 2026 update

(this is a lightly edited linkpost for the LessWrong audience - full piece is here and goes into implications for AVs and humanoid robots.)Last year, I wrote “Safety Without Understanding,” a piece exploring how Waymo safely rolled out autonomous driving systems without a deep mechanistic understanding of many parts of the stack. At that time, my basic view on the connection of Waymo’s safety strategy to LLM safety was as follows:Waymo proves that a broad battery of realistic simulations can hel...