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I had a Cruise driverless car here in Austin, TX blow through a cross walk and get really close to me. I had a broken leg at the time and was using a walker. I
by topherPedersen 3y ago
I had a Cruise driverless car here in Austin, TX blow through a cross walk and get really close to me. I had a broken leg at the time and was using a walker. I almost hit the cruise car with my walker.
Before this, I was really impressed by Cruise and actually bought shares in General Motors because I was so blown away. But yeah those cars aren't perfect. However, maybe a human was controlling the car when it blew threw that cross walk? I would not be surprised if a person were to do something like that because people drive horrible all the time, but I would expect better from a computer.
Maybe that's part of the problem? We have bad drivers who are ultimately writing the software that controls the cars.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. If someone from Cruise happens to read this, try and add some code to prevent these cars from blowing through cross walks with people in them. (I'm not sure what the law says about this, but my interpretation is that if the cross walk sign is lit up, and there's a pedestrian in the cross walk, you should stop. Maybe it's okay to go if they haven't made it to your side of the street yet, but you should never get so close to a pedestrian that they can strike the vehicle out of anger with an object.)