Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams

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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 caused the remote operator system to not be able to keep up across the city.

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    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Too much “optimization” in the numbers of the “AI” (Actually Indians).

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 testing around a roundabout in a quiet little residential area …

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