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I've got a question on Waymo. Say you're an old person who takes quite a bit of time to exit the vehicle. Is there a button outside to indicate you're clear o
by rmason 5y ago
I've got a question on Waymo. Say you're an old person who takes quite a bit of time to exit the vehicle. Is there a button outside to indicate you're clear of the vehicle? Or are you 3/4 out when it gets another ride, slams the van door on you and takes off at 45 mph with you hanging out.
I have seen many descriptions of the tech, some of it at a pretty high level on how it navigates but never anything how it ensures that the passenger has had a successful exit.
- lindseymysse 5y agoThat is why Los Angeles Metro's model of a hailable microbus is the correct business model here. Uber showed us what we can do with an app, now the job is to adapt our mass transit systems to these new ways of reasoning about traffic.
- upbeat_general 5y agoI don't have any 1st person experience with this (or work at Waymo) but there are probably several easy ways they avoid this. The car will probably never drive with the door open and all modern cars have sensors to detect this. Second, their cars (and any competent self-driving car) needs to have a very accurate awareness of its surroundings. True it might be difficult to get a clear view of a person just barely outside the car but I'd bet that they have cameras/radar/lidar positioned to see if at least something is there. Lastly, they have internal passenger cameras that can detect whether a person is inside the car.
- rkalla 5y agoThey have specifically strengthened the motors in the sliding door to cut the average adult person in half if they take longer than 30 seconds to exit. (lol I like your example scenario)