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I'll never forget I almost got murdered terminator style by a Cruise while riding my bicycle around SF... hopefully they figured that out.

jeffbee 5y ago
I discovered a few years ago that a Cruise will stop dead if it hears a horn. My bicycle happens to have an electric horn from a motorcycle. This provided some occasional amusement. I wonder if they still do that.
- nso 5y ago
  That would not be a very efficient feature to have enabled here in Mexico
  - ortusdux 5y ago
    Reminds me of the 'honk more wait more' video from the Mumbai police dept. https://twitter.com/MumbaiPolice/status/1223090017397960705 https://twitter.com/MumbaiPolice/status/1223090017397960705
chrisco255 5y ago
Don't worry, the later terminator models are much more effective.
ThePadawan 5y ago
He really does do all his own stunts.
useful 5y ago
Yea it is terrifying, I had a reflective vertical zipper on a jacket while out for a run and saw a Cruise swerve towards me after it crested a small hill. I guess I looked like the new lane
aix1 5y ago
> I almost got murdered terminator style by a Cruise while riding my bicycle around SF... hopefully they figured that out. I had to google "Cruise". To save others a moment or two, Cruise is a self-driving startup unrelated to Alphabet. In the quoted sentence, "they" != "Waymo" (I wasn't sure).
mulletbum 5y ago
That's awful. I am almost murdered daily and I live in a city without self driving cars.
mas-ev 5y ago
Can you elaborate more on how? HN is getting to reddit's status where people make comments and everyone just upvotes because it sounds good to them.
- blamazon 5y ago
  People have been saying “HN is turning into Reddit” for over ten years. There’s a bit of an Easter egg at the bottom of the HN guidelines about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
    I don't know. I've been here for nearly a decade (I switch accounts every once in a while), and in the last six months or so, it sure feels like somethings different. Specifically, I'm noticing more joke replies that aren't downvoted. Maybe I'm just getting old.
    - 01100011 5y ago
      I said the same thing a year or two ago. There's probably some truth to it, but overall it's probably just selective bias. I became a HN regular because I saw some insightful comments backed by quality moderation. I was escaping the dumpster fire of reddit so it seemed like paradise by comparison. Over time, my usage of HN grew, and I became more exposed to the reddit-like mentality that pops up on certain topics or at certain times(i.e. weekends). I think the quality of HN varies depending on where the more serious users are in their development schedules. It would be an interesting thing to analyze I suppose.
hadlock 5y ago
A Cruise car nearly ran me and my baby in a stroller (a pretty standard model stroller for the neighborhood, too) in the crosswalk by Caltrain station. The rest of the cars have not been so overzealous in running down pedestrians. I give Cruise an extra wide margin of error since then.

jeffbee 5y ago

I discovered a few years ago that a Cruise will stop dead if it hears a horn. My bicycle happens to have an electric horn from a motorcycle. This provided some occasional amusement. I wonder if they still do that.

nso 5y ago
That would not be a very efficient feature to have enabled here in Mexico
- ortusdux 5y ago
  Reminds me of the 'honk more wait more' video from the Mumbai police dept. https://twitter.com/MumbaiPolice/status/1223090017397960705 https://twitter.com/MumbaiPolice/status/1223090017397960705

chrisco255 5y ago

Don't worry, the later terminator models are much more effective.

ThePadawan 5y ago

He really does do all his own stunts.

useful 5y ago

Yea it is terrifying, I had a reflective vertical zipper on a jacket while out for a run and saw a Cruise swerve towards me after it crested a small hill. I guess I looked like the new lane

aix1 5y ago

> I almost got murdered terminator style by a Cruise while riding my bicycle around SF... hopefully they figured that out. I had to google "Cruise". To save others a moment or two, Cruise is a self-driving startup unrelated to Alphabet. In the quoted sentence, "they" != "Waymo" (I wasn't sure).

mulletbum 5y ago

That's awful. I am almost murdered daily and I live in a city without self driving cars.

mas-ev 5y ago

Can you elaborate more on how? HN is getting to reddit's status where people make comments and everyone just upvotes because it sounds good to them.

blamazon 5y ago
People have been saying “HN is turning into Reddit” for over ten years. There’s a bit of an Easter egg at the bottom of the HN guidelines about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
  I don't know. I've been here for nearly a decade (I switch accounts every once in a while), and in the last six months or so, it sure feels like somethings different. Specifically, I'm noticing more joke replies that aren't downvoted. Maybe I'm just getting old.
  - 01100011 5y ago
    I said the same thing a year or two ago. There's probably some truth to it, but overall it's probably just selective bias. I became a HN regular because I saw some insightful comments backed by quality moderation. I was escaping the dumpster fire of reddit so it seemed like paradise by comparison. Over time, my usage of HN grew, and I became more exposed to the reddit-like mentality that pops up on certain topics or at certain times(i.e. weekends). I think the quality of HN varies depending on where the more serious users are in their development schedules. It would be an interesting thing to analyze I suppose.

hadlock 5y ago

A Cruise car nearly ran me and my baby in a stroller (a pretty standard model stroller for the neighborhood, too) in the crosswalk by Caltrain station. The rest of the cars have not been so overzealous in running down pedestrians. I give Cruise an extra wide margin of error since then.