So they are going to change public transportation infrastructure to support them right? They will get dedicated bus lanes and protected stops right? It’s definitely going to be affordable right? This is going to help with lessening car dependency RIGHT? 😮💨
I don’t trust them to do the right thing at all.
We’ve had them here in Phoenix since before the pandemic. They operate just like Uber, except they’re cheaper and there’s no driver. You can sit in any seat besides the driver seat, and store items in the trunk of the vehicle. You can pair your phone with the car and play your own music on the speakers. Pretty good experience all things considered. The cars are pretty good at finding a place to stop and load/unload passengers, but sometimes they will drive right past you when finding a place to park and you have to walk 10-15 feet to the car.
So they are going to change public transportation infrastructure to support them right? They will get dedicated bus lanes and protected stops right?
Why? They already work fine on the existing infrastructure.
The end of the article when it talks about the fire trucks that the car failed to yield to; the article claimed it was because they were yellow instead of red. What about cop cars that are white, black, blue? How about ambulances? This seems super shady behavior to me.
I can’t speak about these cars, but I know that Waymo’s cars identify the siren/lights to determine the presence of emergency vehicles. Because without the lights and siren, there’s no emergency and no need to yield, so they get treated like any other vehicle on the road.
Not sure why Zoox is identifying based on body color. Surely they know paint exists?
There’s also unmarked emergency vehicles.
<abandoned joke>
There’s plenty of cops driving in civilian cars or doctors on emergency that use their own cars, both can use those little emergency lights they pop onto the roof of their car.
The whole point of unmarked police cars is you can’t tell they’re a police car until the lights come on.
Also, why wouldn’t an unmarked fire truck be useful? It would still function as a fire truck, and the lights would identify it as such. This is a weird take.
Joking about how for a firetruck to be unrecognizable as a fire truck, you’d have to remove so much useful stuff from it/limit access to things from the outside so much as to render it ineffective, and also being kind of absurd by pretending that unmarked firetrucks are at all the subject of what they were talking about
Well self driving cars are best but not for now because the algorithm to detect object & pedestrian still needs tuning. I remembered Tesla still had same issue that made them crashed
In Asia self driving cars doesn’t work because we drive like maniac & can cause huge traffic crash compared to Europe or USA.Wake me up when we have Johnny Cab
NEW, automated children’s bicycle. Guaranteed to teach the little tyke how to ride! *
- ^Comes with training wheels, and adult monitor standing by at all times.^
Ha, no.
