> Surely Cruise and Waymo have thought about this. Curious how it's supposed to work normally I was in a Waymo that encountered a fire engine parked in the cen

> Surely Cruise and Waymo have thought about this. Curious how it's supposed to work normally I was in a Waymo that encountered a fire engine parked in the center of an intersection. Traffic was stopped already when we arrived. We were maybe three cars back. Our light was red and no one was directing traffic. I recall the car acting a little hesitant as we came to a stop. It pulled towards the curb a bit and might have stuttered rather than coming to a completely smooth stop. Either way, the first car at the light went right on red. And we pulled up smoothly to fill the gap. When our light turned green, the Waymo waited a bit for the first car to go. Slowly crept past the fire engine in the open lane, and accelerated somewhat aggressively away. I literally whooped. My assumption is that the software flagged the situation to an operator and they were able to instruct it in the time we were stopped. I heard from a friend that the car basically prompts the operator with a few pre-planned choices to select among — so the car is following a route it planned, but it provides the operator with options to keep the human in the loop for the tricky decision while still allowing autonomous driving execution (no remote direct driving is allowed iiuc).