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San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones | "It's a great time" (www.techspot.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Safe Streets Rebel's protest comes after automatic vehicles were blamed for incidents including crashing into a bus and running over a dog. City officials in June said...

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[–] 17 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Some autonomous vehicles are not properly programmed to actually notice and properly avoid everything they should. For example, cyclists might be getting hit more by them.

I believe they are fighting to get the AI worked on more to actually avoid real obstacles.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Shame we can't do the same for people. I wouldn't be surprised to find that humans cause more of this type of problem than self-driving cars for the number of miles driven.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I believe humans do cause more accidents, so these are definitely safer. But, the point is that these cars are meant to be very safe. If I can't drive my motorcycle around an autonomous car and feel safe, that's not great.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Honestly, what makes you more uncomfortable passing an autonomous vehicle than a human driver? At least you know the AV won't take it personally when you pass. Are we seeing instances of AV's sideswiping (motor)cyclists of any sort?

    If anything, I would be more concerned with being in FRONT of an AV but that also is when I'm most concerned about humans behind me too. Getting decimated from behind while on 2-wheels is one of those sitting duck scenarios.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Yeah, the vast majority of AV accidents with motorcycles seem to be rear-endings or turning left in front of a motorcycle. The two exact same scenarios that human drivers cause all the time.

    The protests are basically just pushing for a digital version of the “look twice” movement. Because there was a big push to remind human drivers to check for motorcycles, but the digital side of things seems to have been neglected.

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