Americans will blame anything but the guns for shooting deaths.
Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting
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Re: Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting
#192Cars block the street all the time, there is ample place to pass the waymo car on the left in the opposing lane, yet those SUV driving humans don't care to move out of the way either, and police just blocks the maneuver area too. That silver car in the front could also just pass in front and make space. Situational awareness has room to be improved for a lot of entities in this short video. Nueces Street is 3 and hal…
So AI drives as bad as humans.
Waste of resources.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
>People can completely immobilize the vehicles by standing in front of them This is true of any vehicle lmao. Someone can stand in front of your vehicle and prevent you from proceeding and there's not a thing you can do about it.
A human driver would just get out of their car and beat the crap out of you, something that Waymo is not capable of (yet).
No they wouldn't.
I certainly wouldn't. I'm a short gay guy, plus even if I was big I don't want an assault charge; standing in front of my car doesn't give me a legal right to assault someone. From a legal standpoint (in most places) it's a deadlock.
Not every guy is big and strong and capable of or wanting to do violence.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh I've seen more SUV/big car drivers act like this than small car drivers, but then I live in the UK. A friend who lived in New York for a bit would never live there again and says driving there was an absolute nightmare; everyone's out for themselves. And you can see it in multiple "drivers react to an ambulance in different countries videos", with America the ambulance is always blocked and going slowly. Compare t…
Agreed, tbh. In Seattle, the most ritualistic abusers of the HOV lanes are large SUVs and trucks with only a driver in them. Also, ex-paramedic, three cases fairly similar, but the one I found most egregious, was us going lights and sirens on I-5 heading to Harborview, heavy heavy rain. Traffic on the freeway slowly but steadily goes right. Cue a single-occupant Escalade accelerate up, overtake us on the inside and p…
Ha! Always satisfying the few times justice is actually served.
And different country, but still thank you for having been a paramedic. World definitely needs more people like you.
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#195I'd LoVE to look into it but the news website is pure cancer ads before the video, no sound clock on sound that triggers another ad to you clock back, it restart an ad and you scroll a little bit and a top ad pops up while the bottom one is still there with like 3 words of the article readable. I am sorry I am out.
It’s so perplexing to hear about people seeing ads - do you really not use an ad blocking solution?
Options are limited on mobile
Re: Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting
#196The police officer definitely delayed the clearing of the vehicle. It was 20 seconds away from completing its maneuver.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Waymo's are not about to run a person or bicyclist over. This has only introduced more novel problems. People can completely immobilize the vehicles by standing in front of them, or placing a traffic cone. (And while this is kind of funny when done to unused vehicles to bother a multi-trillion dollar corporation. It is not funny when it's done to harass women.) This in turn spirals into a whole new set of political…
Rolling out Waymo more broadly will help bring these criminals to justice, as there crimes will be recorded by an unflappably peaceful victim.
I understand your sarcasm, but do understand that drivers legitimately have a lot of political weight.
"Increase the speed limits" is a classic populist policy that keeps being reimplemented (and walked back for it's impracticality) all across the world. Policies to ban cyclists are uncommon, but certainly not unheard of. One imagines the self-driving car companies won't be too bothered to fight against laws that hurt everyone but them.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
A human driver would just get out of their car and beat the crap out of you, something that Waymo is not capable of (yet).
No they wouldn't. I certainly wouldn't. I'm a short gay guy, plus even if I was big I don't want an assault charge; standing in front of my car doesn't give me a legal right to assault someone. From a legal standpoint (in most places) it's a deadlock. Not every guy is big and strong and capable of or wanting to do violence.
You wouldn't, but they key is that the cyclist/pedestrian doesn't know it's you.
Say it's 5% of drivers who are maniacs, one encounters many many cars, and the cost of misjudging this situation is "grievous injury". So the end result is people will give way to cars even when they don't have to.
> Not every guy is big and strong and capable of or wanting to do violence.
This is structurally comparable to the way women treat "all men" as "potentially violent". It's not about you per-se, just a consequence of the group you cannot be immediately separated from.
Speaking of, that's the other half. Sure you're a normal guy. You don't want an assault change. The tradeoff changes when you are at risk, when violence is being done to you. (Hence the harassment-of-women example)
Sure you're not gonna try to murder the person outside like the road-raging maniacs, but when your safety is on the line, driving dangerously close past them is on the table.
Re: Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting
#199I'd LoVE to look into it but the news website is pure cancer ads before the video, no sound clock on sound that triggers another ad to you clock back, it restart an ad and you scroll a little bit and a top ad pops up while the bottom one is still there with like 3 words of the article readable. I am sorry I am out.
It’s so perplexing to hear about people seeing ads - do you really not use an ad blocking solution?
If you’re blocking ads from the news site and suggesting everyone should, are you donating to the organization to ensure the news remains available?
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You can arrest a driver for not making space for an emergency vehicle. Who do we arrest here? That's the best part, no one! We have finally managed to invent a system that widely disperses accountability so much no one can be held liable when something goes wrong.
>no one can be held liable when something goes wrong. No, at the very least tort laws still apply even if the driver is a corporation. Do you really need someone sitting in jail to satisfy your justice boner?
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