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
      1936·
      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
          134·
          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
              126·
              11 months ago

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

                • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
                  118·
                  11 months ago

                  This is what I mean, you’ll never get rid of enclosed motorized vehicles for a variety of reasons, and if we’re going to have them around, it would be better if they were self driving and killed fewer people than human drivers.

    • Cloudless ☼@feddit.ukEnglish
      224·
      11 months ago

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