A third of San Francisco lost power over the weekend, causing traffic chaos.

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[–] 20 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

just stopping is not that bad of an outcome if I'm being honest. Pulling over would be better.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    I’ve watched Seattle drivers do worse in a power outage so just stopping was probably safer. The other side of the coin is that everyone gets trapped on the road during an outage as stopped cars block everything.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago

    And people wonder why I don’t trust the safety of driverless cars run by a company that never thought to account for power outages.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    How hard is it to automate treating a non-working traffic light as a stop sign?

    Seriously, this is one if the few things I expected autonomous driving to do better than humans.

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I would imagine that reliable full self driving technology would require a massive infrastructure investment to make them much more reliable and safe than they currently are.

    The issue of making machines navigate using signage designed for human eyes seems nuts.

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