> 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 onco

> 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).