No one was inside a Waymo car as it was destroyed.

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

  • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1002·
    11 months ago

    Watched one of these block traffic once by putting on its blinker to turn down a street with a police barricade up. The street had been closed and the police weren’t going to lift the barricade. Nonetheless, the car put its blinker on and sat there blocking traffic indefinitely.

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
      1935·
      11 months ago

      I saw a human driver get into a traffic accident because he was mad that the guy ahead of him gave someone space to turn out of a parking lot, they ended up arguing and their cars just sat there further blocking traffic for half an hour until the cops came.

      Why are you acting like robot drivers are the only fallible ones?

        • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
          133·
          11 months ago

          Oh please do go ahead and tell me how my 93 year old grandmother is going to bicycle home.

            • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
              125·
              11 months ago

              So in your world, planes, trains, and buses pick you up and drop you off at your doorstop? How cute.

              • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
                17·
                11 months ago

                Nah. Unless you live literally at the station, which happens but is rare, doorsteps are the domain of collect taxis.

                Which btw are the most economical option in rural areas as you don’t have to drive empty buses around all the time. In cities they should be limited to people actually needing them, also open bicycle paths for microcars for people with mobility issues, not everyone wants or needs a powered wheelchair.

    • Cloudless ☼@feddit.ukEnglish
      223·
      11 months ago

      That sounds like a very difficult scenario for AI to resolve. This requires nearly AGI to understand the situation.