• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    How have these things not encountered out-of-service stop lights before? This seems like the kind of thing you test before you let them around people.

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      12 hours ago

      This seems like the kind of thing you test

      So, so true.

      As well as another few thousand things they have not tested before, while making these alleged miles of years long testing around a roundabout in a quiet little residential area …

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      18 hours ago

      I wonder if normally, such a light outage would trigger a remote operator to intervene and drive the car through the intersection, but the sheer number of disrupted lights, combined with the spotty connection due to parts of cell network going down caused the remote operator system to not be able to keep up across the city.