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Waymo robot car injures motorcyclist — but human driver at fault
- 03089199076 8y agoHugh Uy
- masonic 8y agoI saw a Waymo almost hit a pedestrian just today (in Mountain View, turning from Central eastbound onto Castro St. southbound). First, it delayed making the right turn a good 30 seconds because it seemed unable to distinguish the two destination lanes from one and passed up numerous opportunities when the near lane was empty. Then when all traffic cleared, it started its turn without regard to the pedestrian already in the crosswalk just 3 feet to its right. Fortunately, the pedestrian was more aware than the Waymo was. This wasn't some rare edge condition, either, and Waymo's tech (or if it was in purely manual mode, its driver is an idiot) is just not ready for the real world.