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> It does seem like the car "acted reasonably" I would firmly say that it did not act reasonably. Blocking the other lane of traffic is the second worst actio

> It does seem like the car "acted reasonably" I would firmly say that it did not act reasonably. Blocking the other lane of traffic is the second worst action I can think of, only behind ramming into the emergency vehicle. It would have been better to ignore the emergency vehicle and continue driving, which would have at least cleared the jam. I worked in the space at one point, and I would put the issue down to autonomous vehicles being trained entirely to keep themselves safe. E.g. they know to stay a certain distance from other cars, but they have no concept of "could another get around me?". A similar example would be parking. On a street without lines to mark spaces, I would not be surprised to see an autonomous vehicle park in the middle of a space large enough for 2 cars, preventing someone from using the rest of the space. Another would be opening space for someone to merge. I don't think that's something they ever do on purpose. We're teaching them to not hit things or get hit by things, rather than teaching them how to drive, which is a far more nuanced skill. The same thing would have happened with 2 autonomous vehicles, because neither even attempts to understand what the other is trying to do. They would just deadlock until the garbage truck moved.

treesprite82 4y ago
> It would have been better to ignore the emergency vehicle and continue driving, which would have at least cleared the jam. With the fire truck using the oncoming lane to overtake the garbage truck, and with the articles saying a human could have reversed back into the intersection to clear the lane, it sounds like the fire truck would be in the way of the autonomous car just driving forwards. > The same thing would have happened with 2 autonomous vehicles, because neither even attempts to understand what the other is trying to do I don't think this is true in general - they seem to rely heavily on judging the intent/target of other vehicles to predict future path and react to those possibilities. Likely that the autonomous car A (in the position of the fire truck) would not overtake the garbage truck when it can see car B oncoming in that lane in the first place, but in the event that it does occur, car B would likely slow to prevent a potential accident (understanding car A is attempting an overtake and may continue forward) and car A would probably pull back in behind the garbage truck (understanding that it'd be in the way of car B continuing forwards).

treesprite82 4y ago

> It would have been better to ignore the emergency vehicle and continue driving, which would have at least cleared the jam. With the fire truck using the oncoming lane to overtake the garbage truck, and with the articles saying a human could have reversed back into the intersection to clear the lane, it sounds like the fire truck would be in the way of the autonomous car just driving forwards. > The same thing would have happened with 2 autonomous vehicles, because neither even attempts to understand what the other is trying to do I don't think this is true in general - they seem to rely heavily on judging the intent/target of other vehicles to predict future path and react to those possibilities. Likely that the autonomous car A (in the position of the fire truck) would not overtake the garbage truck when it can see car B oncoming in that lane in the first place, but in the event that it does occur, car B would likely slow to prevent a potential accident (understanding car A is attempting an overtake and may continue forward) and car A would probably pull back in behind the garbage truck (understanding that it'd be in the way of car B continuing forwards).