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Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco

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Re: Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco

#82

What I'd like to know is if the concrete was marked out with cones. If it was then clearly the car's fault, if not then the worker's fault. Cones become more critical with the proliferation of non-human drivers.

first of all in law there is no such term like "car's fault" or "cow's fault". It's always the owner

Re: Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco

#83

This might be a naive question, but are driverless lanes being considered? For instance we have bike lanes all over the US. It might make sense to make a similar investment for AI-friendly lanes to help transition to driverless transportation.

They are called train track.

Re: Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco

#85
The scary part of this is it went through construction cones and flaggers with stop signs to end up in the concrete. Basically, this thing went right through a construction zone without stopping.

Granted, people are this dumb every single day. But who is liable for the fines here?

Re: Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco

#86
post #72

https://archive.md/gasFa

This link just put me in a captcha loop on iOS Safari. Anyone else? Never had a problem with archive.is links.

> Never had a problem with archive.is links.

I've been having that problem with archive.is links for weeks.

Re: Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco

#87

But if you look at the statistics of human-driven cars getting stuck in wet concrete this is actually 34.7% better /s

Human abilities are typically gonna fall into a normal distribution. There’s definitely an opportunity for driverless cars to have a much thinner dangerous end of the tail. You can’t fix stupid, but you can limit an algorithm…

Re: Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco

#88

This might be a naive question, but are driverless lanes being considered? For instance we have bike lanes all over the US. It might make sense to make a similar investment for AI-friendly lanes to help transition to driverless transportation.

> This might be a naive question, but are driverless lanes being considered? For instance we have bike lanes all over the US. It might make sense to make a similar investment for AI-friendly lanes to help transition to driverless transportation.

That idea doesn't make sense. Where would the space for the dedicated lanes come from, especially on city streets (like the one in the OP)? The existing traffic could use those lanes more effectively, and it would be wrong to waste it because driverless cars suck and their developers are insistently shoving them out the door despite that.

Re: Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco

#89

The scary part of this is it went through construction cones and flaggers with stop signs to end up in the concrete. Basically, this thing went right through a construction zone without stopping. Granted, people are this dumb every single day. But who is liable for the fines here?

Well, if a corporation is technically a person, I would say the owner of the driverless car. Assuming it is owned by a corp...
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