How tf do you get to the ‘put an autonomous vehicle on the road’ stage without ever considering police directions to a driver, or basic safety around first responders??

I wish those dumb driverless cars disrupted ICE raids instead...

It's lucky it is white.

What if we put the cars on rails and made them longer to hold more people at once?

lmao

When we encounter unusual events like this one, we learn from them as we continue improving road safety and operating in dynamic cities.”

In response to the incident, a company spokesperson told NBC that “safety is our highest priority at Waymo"

In all the recent stories about Waymos cruising right on past stopped school buses that have their stop sign out, lights flashing, and kids crossing, they said the same thing. They also stated that Waymos "will not be taken off the streets for now." That's even though it's still happening even after they updated the software and thought they'd fixed it.

My first thought was, Why the hell do they get to say whether or not their Waymos will be taken off the streets?! Why aren't they being told to get the damn things off the streets until they've proved this won't happen again? Have we all just completely rolled over for the oligarchs to the point where we just let them do anything they want even after they've killed animals and nearly killed schoolchildren? (that's a rhetorical question of course).

Someday: “Our officers, in fear for their lives, had no choice but to fire upon the approaching Waymo when it refused to obey their orders to stop. We regret the unfortunate collateral damage inflicted to the passengers, which was unavoidable.”

That's not a fucking standoff wtf. That's some dude laying flat on the ground as a bunch of heavily arm thugs bark orders at him, threatening him with lethal violence if he doesn't lay on the ground like a dog.

Jesus futurism, wtf is this narrative

Waymo paying tribute to the 20th anniversary of Leeroy Jenkins

Well it could be worst. Imagine it drive right through a gang war or maybe right into a giant sinkhole that just opened.

The cops were “stunned”? Really? This is pretty normal for autonomous cars. Had they all stepped through a time portal from 2010?

ACAB: Autonomous Cars are Bulldozing

drove through a red light

just feet away from the driver, who was lying face down on the asphalt

Neither of these statements in the article are correct. The video shows the light turning red after the car goes through the intersection and has a cut in the video before showing the driver of the white SUV get out and lay down.

Watching on mute it just looks like the road is closed and turning left/right would be the right move...

Choose all the squares where a cop isn't laying low to the ground...

Blue bag of chips, t-shirt on the ground, fuzzy blue ink on road, blue squirrel, rubble pile of blue stuff. All perfectly fine items.

Translation: Cops pissed off that a robot car doesn't think they're the main character.

In the video, officers can be heard yelling at the Waymo to clear the area. Instead it did the exact opposite, slowing to a crawl and trying to sidle up to the curb, right near where the suspect was being held at gunpoint.

“Go to your left! Go to your left!” an officer can be heard yelling as the driverless cab throws its right-side blinker on. Of course, the Waymo doesn’t respond to outside verbal commands.
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a company spokesperson told NBC that... "When we encounter unusual events like this one, we learn from them as we continue improving road safety and operating in dynamic cities.”

I hope their takeaway isn't to let thugs barking orders at cars dictate what the car should do.

I appreciate that the car understood not to follow the demands of some uniformed gangster standing in the road with a gun pointed at some dude on the ground.

I wish people would be as anarchist as this car. Fuck the police

Oh come on guys let’s not be too negative.

Maybe it was trying to get the guy out of a jam.

Mandatory /s

I like the future where we can call self driving getaway cars to rescue us from a bunch of heavily armed, uniformed thugs threatening to kill us