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The Self-Driving Cars Wearing a Cone of Shame (slate.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ludw to c/technology

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[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They have done things like block EMS from responding to a mass shooting. People keep making this about the safety of humans vs. autonomous cars, but humans generally don't block ambulances. Even if they're big asshole drivers.

That makes these things a clear and present danger and they should not be on the streets.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Updated Wednesday June 14 2:10 p.m. EST - San Francisco Police have provided this statement to Jalopnik:

“The SFPD is aware of the social media video showing an autonomous vehicle stopped in the middle of a road during a recent shooting incident in San Francisco. The autonomous vehicle did not delay police, fire, or other emergency personnel with our arrival or departure from this scene. Furthermore, it did not interfere with our investigation into the shooting incident.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And self driving cars don’t generally do that either? Humans have done this. Self driving cars have done this. If the ambulance and car were self driver, cross vehicle communication could prevent any car from refusing to follow the law and get over, improving EMS response times.

One example does not make generally. Self driving cars are not ready yet. But I don’t understand why anybody WOULDNT want safer, faster, more enjoyable commutes.

Humans are way less safe than self driving cars. Our biggest concern with self driving cars should be the absolute massive amount of data the car companies would be able to mine, and the fact that regulation in this country will obviously never be in place to protect us from that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the record: the same article has an update (Wednesday June 14 2:10 p.m. EST) where the SFPD state that the car did not block any emergency services.

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 1 year ago

Then I was wrong. I read it before the update and didn't re-read when I posted (I didn't think there would be a reason to).