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In the past two weeks in San Francisco, I have seen: - Cruise car stopped dead in the middle of Oak street at Divisadero, at night, with no emergency lights on
by jb12 3y ago
In the past two weeks in San Francisco, I have seen:
- Cruise car stopped dead in the middle of Oak street at Divisadero, at night, with no emergency lights on.
- Waymo car driven onto the sidewalk to pick up a passenger on Scott street at Haight street
- Waymo car stopped, blocking the whole road on Carmelita street because it started a 3 point turn and then decided it didn't have enough room to continue
- Cruise car swerving out in front of traffic from the kerb on Divisadero at Ellis street without signaling
- flyinglizard 3y agoAs if things in SF weren't dystopian enough.
- LightBug1 3y agoI think we'll see more of this as AI matures. It's getting more and more difficult to distinguish between human and AI drivers.
- liaukovv 3y agoNext thing you know they'll be cursing at you using speakers
- LightBug1 3y agoI'm looking forward to the first full-on high speed police pursuit of an autonomous Waymo through downtown San Francisco ... (== turing complete).
- Rumudiez 3y agomissed opportunity for "touring complete"
- yowlingcat 3y agoThis sounds like a great premise for a video game not unlike Crazy Taxi, but from the perspective of a highway trooper who needs to chase buggy autonomous cabs.
- jstarfish 3y agoThis was more or less a series of side quests in Cyberpunk.
- elliottkember 3y agoAlan Touring: Full Self-Racing
- sidewndr46 3y agoincluding the passenger trying to cancel the fare and the car saying "I'm sorry Dave I can't allow you to do that"
- salawat 3y agoKitbashing HAL 9000 and Star Wolf? >I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. >Can't let you do that, Star Fox!" Screw it, lets throw in the Car Fax fox as a state trooper, and I'm pretty sure we have a reasonable starting point for a video game worldbuild. Call it Car Fox.
- pmoriarty 3y agoor maybe a Johnny Cab from Total Recall.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY
- resolutebat 3y agoComplete with Tesla Cybertrucks from the 1980s.
- dylan604 3y agoI use the "things hardly ever..." quote daily
- Syzygies 3y ago"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" is the actual quote from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). I also love the scene where Dave takes Hal apart. We've always called the first computation the Macaulay computer algebra system completed "Hal's Song".
- moonchrome 3y agoDo we know when Delamain gets created ?
- 13of40 3y ago"YOU SON OF A BITCH, LEARN HOW TO DR-- Sorry, that's on me, let's try a different topic."
- hansvm 3y agoAt least when a human is irrationally angry at the fact that I don't have a legal place to drive they just honk and I know to be on the lookout for road rage and other shenanigans. If a car trained on that data is likely to behave absurdly then I can't protect myself _unless_ it has the loudspeaker function to prepare me for its misdeads.
- rasz 3y agoplenty of material available for them already: High On Life - Bounty Krubis: Drivers Yell and Cuss at Each Other at Highway Traffic Jam Sequence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs945iNyk0g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs945iNyk0g
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoAdmittedly, I don’t know what Waymo is (or Cruise for that matter) but if someone told me it was “Uber but they don’t rate their drivers” it would still sound about right as far as human drivers go.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoTuring syndrome strikes again
- b0r3datw0rk 3y agohumans do this stuff too, its just far more memorable when an AV does it. because inherently you know they will be superior drivers once mature
- pavel_lishin 3y agoBut you can tell a human driver that they need to move their car.
- dylan604 3y agoI think you misspelled yell. Has anyone in a traffic related anything ever been told advice? Personally, I've only ever seen (heard) it communicated in a yell
- DANmode 3y agoThey just don't want to miss their limited window on a "didn't hear ya"!
- dylan604 3y agoThat made me think of one of my favorite scenes from Labyrinth with the hear no, speak no knockers--"no good, can't hear you!"
- olyjohn 3y agoHow do you expect me to communicate my really good driving advice over my straight-piped big block V8 without yelling?
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoHumans have a self-preservation instinct that makes most of them think twice about truly stupid acts.
- vkou 3y ago
- renewiltord 3y agoFor comparison, in the past day, Caltrain has killed two people in two separate incidents.
- callalex 3y agoTrains don’t just appear out of nowhere, their trajectory is quite predictable and well documented. If there is a collision it’s pretty hard to blame the train.
- rcme 3y agoTwo pedestrian strikes. Doesn’t seem like suicide has been ruled out yet.
- renewiltord 3y agoCaltrain killed more than one person per month last year. We continue to run it. This puts a ceiling on the economic value of a life in California.
- rcme 3y agoHow many people did it kill if you exclude suicides? Jumping in front of a train is a very common way to kill yourself.
- manquer 3y agoI don’t think any comparison other transport/policy is good way to discuss safety , otherwise we will be talking gun related homicides compared to other developed countries or discuss our covid deaths with other countries due to policy decisions. Self driving like regular transport should have strong regulations and policing , today police is not equipped to handle these issues(tickets?) and there is no strong regulatory body (like NTSB) which is looking into non fatal incidents and that is a problem
- vkou 3y ago
- thunfischtoast 3y agoAt least they don't confuse gas and brake pedals und break through walls like senior drivers (yet).