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> it's not just drivers ignoring the law It is. If a driver comes across the situation you described, any action other than a right-hand turn means they should
by nkrisc 7y ago
> it's not just drivers ignoring the law
It is. If a driver comes across the situation you described, any action other than a right-hand turn means they should probably take a driver's ed course again. Regardless of what a robotic voice on their phone is telling them.
Google maps once instructed my wife to do a U-turn on Lakeshore Drive. Nope.
- myself248 7y agoYes, and driver's ed should harp on the concept of ignoring the sat-nav if it's telling you obnoxious things. See my other comment. I don't think this concept is mentioned anywhere in the current curriculum, and I think a lot of people are ignorant enough of technology to obey it more blindly than they should.
- blincoln 7y agoThat's certainly the ideal approach, but I don't think it's realistic to plan for normal people behaving that way. By the time I realized that Google had given me a route that would not work, breaking out of it cost me 10 minutes of sitting in traffic going the wrong way. I think most people would take the "drive like a jerk" alternative at that point, because the sunk-cost illusion is hard to let go of. A self-driving car is basically just going to do what the mapping software tells it to as well, so the "bad instructions from tech companies" factor is a problem that needs to be addressed specifically anyway.