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This law apparently varies between states. This is in PA rather than CA. Though apparently people are complaining about it in CA as well, where it definitely is
by TheCoelacanth 9y ago
This law apparently varies between states. This is in PA rather than CA. Though apparently people are complaining about it in CA as well, where it definitely is the correct behavior.
- cowsandmilk 9y agoActually, the complaint in California is in the guardian article linked and has Uber doing the turn illegaly in CA. That said, the guardian article is a year old, while the Pittsburgh complaint is from today and describes legal behavior in CA. Basically, Uber probably changed their software's behavior to follow California law following the complaints last year and that is now resulting in complaints in Pittsburgh. I have no clue what PA law is on this, but I can imagine the law may differ depending on jurisdictions and this would be something where engineers will have to have a variety of behaviors depending on the applicable law.
- clort 9y agoI have suggested many times that the things computers are good at include looking up inconsistent rules in a database, so this doesn't seem as if it should be an either-or issue for the car, it should know all the rules and be able to follow them as appropriate, where a human might be forgetful.
- dawnerd 9y agoAnd probably why Uber gets it wrong. Bunch of engineers thinking their laws are the laws everywhere. It's good they're figuring this out now before self driving cards become really common as road laws vary so much even between cities and time of day...