Video shared on social media shows a Waymo driving through a red light and into an active police standoff in downtown Los Angeles.
I imagine that the criminal summoned it as a last chance to escape.
drove through a red light
just feet away from the driver, who was lying face down on the asphalt
Neither of these statements in the article are correct. The video shows the light turning red after the car goes through the intersection and has a cut in the video before showing the driver of the white SUV get out and lay down.
Watching on mute it just looks like the road is closed and turning left/right would be the right move…
That’s not a fucking standoff wtf. That’s some dude laying flat on the ground as a bunch of heavily arm thugs bark orders at him, threatening him with lethal violence if he doesn’t lay on the ground like a dog.
Jesus futurism, wtf is this narrative
In the video, officers can be heard yelling at the Waymo to clear the area. Instead it did the exact opposite, slowing to a crawl and trying to sidle up to the curb, right near where the suspect was being held at gunpoint.
“Go to your left! Go to your left!” an officer can be heard yelling as the driverless cab throws its right-side blinker on. Of course, the Waymo doesn’t respond to outside verbal commands.
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a company spokesperson told NBC that… "When we encounter unusual events like this one, we learn from them as we continue improving road safety and operating in dynamic cities.”I hope their takeaway isn’t to let thugs barking orders at cars dictate what the car should do.
I appreciate that the car understood not to follow the demands of some uniformed gangster standing in the road with a gun pointed at some dude on the ground.
I wish people would be as anarchist as this car. Fuck the police
What? No! What if it had a person?
I hate cops too, but having a driverless vehicle driving into a shooting is bad
Well, hopefully the company’s actions will be to open the doors, tell the passengers to get out, and then run over the police, open the doors, and tell the poor guy on the street:
get in if you want to live!
Then speed away
Cool outcome, but massively difficult for a car that can’t even wait a red light
Needs more piggy-detection training
What if we put the cars on rails and made them longer to hold more people at once?
In response to the incident, a company spokesperson told NBC that “safety is our highest priority at Waymo"
In all the recent stories about Waymos cruising right on past stopped school buses that have their stop sign out, lights flashing, and kids crossing, they said the same thing. They also stated that Waymos “will not be taken off the streets for now.” That’s even though it’s still happening even after they updated the software and thought they’d fixed it.
My first thought was, Why the hell do they get to say whether or not their Waymos will be taken off the streets?! Why aren’t they being told to get the damn things off the streets until they’ve proved this won’t happen again? Have we all just completely rolled over for the oligarchs to the point where we just let them do anything they want even after they’ve killed animals and nearly killed schoolchildren? (that’s a rhetorical question of course).
Oh come on guys let’s not be too negative.
Maybe it was trying to get the guy out of a jam.
Mandatory /s
Choose all the squares where a cop isn’t laying low to the ground…
Blue bag of chips, t-shirt on the ground, fuzzy blue ink on road, blue squirrel, rubble pile of blue stuff. All perfectly fine items.
Someday: “Our officers, in fear for their lives, had no choice but to fire upon the approaching Waymo when it refused to obey their orders to stop. We regret the unfortunate collateral damage inflicted to the passengers, which was unavoidable.”
How tf do you get to the ‘put an autonomous vehicle on the road’ stage without ever considering police directions to a driver, or basic safety around first responders??
Shareholders
Move fast and break stuff literally.
I’ve always said that edge cases will continue to plague “AI” things like self driving cars until true AGI exists. In the decades I’ve been driving I’ve seen all manner of edge cases that neither Waymo nor any other self driving car would handle properly.
One example I like to use is when I stopped at a red light next to a construction site. I was watching the red light and didn’t see a cop next to the construction zone who was waving me through the red light. He eventually took a few steps towards my car and yelled to get my attention, after which I drove through the red light.
For a self driving car to respond in a situation like that it would need to recognize the cop as an authority figure and not just a pedestrian that is overriding the red light you stopped at.
See the answer is to remove the edge cases. We make a special road for only self driving cars. No human traffic lights, no pedestrians, just flawless roads. While we’re at it let’s make a special road that the cars couldn’t fall off of if they tried. That will make lane keeping trivial so the cars just need to go straight. We can even make the special road steer for them. Actually since they’re all going the same way we can tie them all together so we only need one engine and can save money hehehe. We’ll make self driving so easy bro.
I’ve been saying this for over a decade and it’s served me well.
Its even worse with LLMs, at least an autonomous vehicle has a set functionality, but people are using LLMs to solve all sorts a problems.
Imagine if they were in an active shootout, that thing just goes driving through the middle.
And then it just keeps driving with a corpse in it 😬
And charges them extra for not exiting the cab at the destination.
Tech bros are some of the stupidest people on earth. Hubris plus money is a bad combination.
Lemme check . . . uhhhhh . . .
Yep. Here it is. Money.
They’re supposed to be able to detect emergency lights and take action to avoid or stop. But they’re also supposed to stop at red lights…
Erm. Didn’t Waymo just decide to chill out a bit with their cars safety?
Yes, they’re no longer deferring to other drivers and generally taking more risks
I like the future where we can call self driving getaway cars to rescue us from a bunch of heavily armed, uniformed thugs threatening to kill us
I wish those dumb driverless cars disrupted ICE raids instead…
Google owns waymo, they’re likely to drive suspected brown people to the ICE detentions centers without warning than disrupt them.
Well, someone in the US probably could get a waymo, make it drive to an area near one, and then go “oopsie”, provided they are white and normal-looking enough.
That could probably be arranged…
lmao
When we encounter unusual events like this one, we learn from them as we continue improving road safety and operating in dynamic cities.”
Classic lipservice
lmao
Food companies be like “When we encounter unusual events like this one, we learn from them as we continue improving edibility and not poisoning our consumers.”
That’s pretty much how it’s going in that industry too
Want lead candy mister?
It’s lucky it is white.
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