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these things need to have a giant E-STOP button accessible to the passengers otherwise they should simply be banned
by blibble 2y ago
these things need to have a giant E-STOP button accessible to the passengers
otherwise they should simply be banned
- moralestapia 2y agoI expressed this exact same concern a couple months ago (and was downvoted, a common theme w/ Google fanbois nowadays): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42117343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42117343 From @simonw back then, >Yes, there's a "pullover now" button on the dashboard at all times. Well, doesn't seem to be the case here.
- Aloisius 2y agoThe pull over button is in fact on the screen. According to his spokesperson, he wasn't aware of it.
- fragmede 2y agothe button is giant and blue and impossible to miss and you can see from the video it isn't on the screen. the screen in the video is mostly brown with a sliver of blue on the side.
- lyime 2y agoAbsolutely not. While that might sound like a safety feature it can also be extremely unsafe. Imagine letting a passenger in a car use the e-brake at any time. It's a tricky problem.
- troad 2y ago> Imagine letting a passenger in a car use the e-brake at any time. Alright, I'm imagining. Seems extremely sensible, especially in an AI-operated vehicle. Much of the world (the US being an outlier) puts passenger-facing emergency breaks in every carriage of passenger trains.
- jeffrallen 2y agoBuses and trains already have publicly usable e-stops. Hell, English ones even have them on the OUTSIDE of the bus. Clearly autonomous vehicles need e-stops, like all automated machines.
- fragmede 2y agothey tried that. in an emergency they just stopped. the problem was they were stopping in the middle traffic and in the middle of intersections, so it's now an pull over button. or just open the door.