I found this part to be even more alarming:
All of the Robotaxi crashes so far have occurred with human safety monitors—who have been trained to take control of the car in the event of a software error—present in the vehicles.
This is significant because, as TechCrunch reported on Monday, Tesla is starting to send out its Robotaxi fleet without safety monitors.
So despite a pitiful record with people trying to correct the cars mistakes, they’re now ready to move on to running them without assistance?!? I am furious at the idea that our safety on the roads is this negotiable.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There was a news story two weeks ago about Waymo taxis in Texas driving through 20 bus stops over a few days.
The only response was, “company officials treat this very seriously and are working on a fix.”
It’s bizarre how if you drove through twenty bus stops in three days, you would not only lose your license but be in jail on multiple charges.
But if a corporation does it it is, “Oops, we will do better next time.”
Utterly insane.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
They wrote the legislation that allowed themselves to operate self driving vehicles. Every one of these vehicles is a symbol of the oligarchy at work.
Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Sounds like they Sovereign Citizens could. They just have the wrong paperwork
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Takes roughly a billion $1 pieces of paper.
Then send a ridiculously small number of those to your state representatives.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh! Driving past stopped school busses you mean. Had to look up “driving through bus stops”. :)
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is a relatively unique Texas law that requires cars to stop when school buses are loading or unloading passengers, including on the opposite side of the road going the other direction. The self driving companies didn’t program for that special use case, so it actually is a relatively easy fix in software.
And the human drivers who move to Texas often get tripped up by this law, because many aren’t aware of the requirement.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It isn’t a unique Texas Law. It’s law everywhere in the US and Canada.
“mostly all in North America, require all surrounding vehicles to stop when a school bus is stopped with its red lights flashing.”
en.wikipedia.org/…/School_bus_traffic_stop_laws
Only if you are from a different country.
Which is beside the point that if anyone else drove through 20 bus stops, they couldn’t use the excuse, “I’m from another country so I don’t know your laws.” to get out of jail.
athatet@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s not just Texas. It’s a requirement to stop for a school bus with its flashing lights on and stop sign out pretty much everywhere in the US.