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u/yeetspeylove 9d ago
I saw one stopped in a roundabout yielding to cars when it had the right of way
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u/Noapolageez1 9d ago
I saw this on Main Street the other day. It realized it was going the other way and tried backing up onto the LR tracks 🤦🏽♀️
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u/babj615 9d ago
WTF happened? So much of this recently.
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u/AradynGaming 6d ago
AI. But hey! They saved a ton of money by using it, instead of real people to program. It's programming is almost as good as a humans, so close enough right? right? Oh...
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u/AVRA333 9d ago
I think that's a good point. Even airplanes struggle with this. Could this be due to the north pole always being on the go?
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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 9d ago
Airplanes do not struggle with this bro 💀
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u/ProfessorPickleRick 8d ago
Car can literally see if the light is green or not and if it’s in the right lane “must be the magnetic field”
…….its not a migrating bird, its a freaking car! 🤣
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u/Oldschoolgroovinchic 9d ago
I live in an area where all the autonomous vehicles tend to be tested before they are available to the broader public (not Mesa). I can’t tell you how many scary situations I’ve seen over the years including several near accidents with cars and pedestrians, all prevented by the other party (not the autonomous vehicle). I’m not saying human-driven vehicles are any better - certainly too many people drive distracted or under the influence - but they aren’t perfect.
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u/ProfessorPickleRick 8d ago
At the airport last night one literally pulled into traffic with no fucks giving if the other guy didn’t slam on their breaks it would have been a disaster.
I wonder if on the older jaguar models they’ll loosened the protocols to cause accidents because they need to be replaced 🤣
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u/ryanrako23 8d ago
These Waymo’s are causing ruckus everywhere. But then when you go inside of them, they are extremely strict and go above and beyond for your safety lol
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u/Skully_65 8d ago
Saw another Waymo do the exact same thing at that exact spot on Sunday (05/24). The passengers wasted no time hopping out and disappearing lol.
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u/mankini01 8d ago
I see these friggen things all the time doing illegal, shady, stuff that would get you and I arrested and our cars towed. Nothing every happens to them. They are held to an entirely different set of rules. Often they will just stop in the middle of the road and actuate turn signals after the fact. Its crazy we allow this, they are not predictable like regular human drivers either. They will randomly do dumb stuff as they get re-dispatched to pick people up.
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u/sunriseunfound 8d ago
Just remember our lawmakers approved us to be guinea pigs for tech companies. We gain nothing but im 100% positive someone's pockets have been padded
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u/AVRA333 9d ago
It's one thing when it's a one way street in downtown phx or an alley, but dt Mesa on main st?
*I heard a rumor that most of these aren't actually driverless and that there are people overseas remote controlling them, I'm pretty sure it was waymo admitting it. Wonder if they're in a simulator or straight up ps5 like game mentality. The Sim coming to reality? lol
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u/Critical-Art-2153 9d ago
There are humans remotely monitoring several vehicles each, helping them out of “unknown situations” I recently spoke with one of these employees and he was clearly a tweaker
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u/GandalfTheGrey46 9d ago
They have people oversees who tell it which of a group of options to pick when they are stuck. They do not remotely drive it.
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u/GandalfTheGrey46 9d ago
Interesting. Seem clear at this point they are not as good as waymo PR would have us believe. Will be interesting to see what happens when the cause serious injury or death.
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u/shitthead480 9d ago
While I agree that's probably true, you're still way more likely to be in a serious accident with a human Uber driver
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u/GandalfTheGrey46 9d ago
Except they keep driving into flood waters (San Antonio, Atlanta). I don’t trust it during flood watches. And im super suspicious about trusting them when they had that issue last year in Arizona yet put out their cars into those conditions a year later without fixing it. Then recently they had problems with construction zones on highways.
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u/MwBrian 9d ago
I mean, yeah sure. You could say “just wait one day there is going to be tragedy”, but also you have to consider that they have been driving autonomously in the area since 2017. So we are at almost a decade of driving and still haven’t had that “someday” moment yet.
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u/iliketoredit 9d ago
March 18, 2018 was the first recorded case of a pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car, after a collision that occurred late in the evening of March 18, 2018. Herzberg was pushing a bicycle across a four-lane road in Tempe, Arizona, United States, when she was struck by an Uber test vehicle, which was operating in self-drive mode with a human safety backup driver sitting in the driving seat. Herzberg was taken to the local hospital where she died of her injuries.
There have been other collisions involving pedestrians in other cities
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u/Shane4255 8d ago
I was just gonna say this. I saw one a few months ago idling with a person inside in front of wildflower Tempe. Finally the occupant got out and slammed the door while cussing and kicked the tire. She then proceeded to walk WAY across the huge parking lot to go into Walgreens. I felt bad for her but it was kinda funny…. Stupid Waymoys.
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u/Guy1nc0gnit0 7d ago
The driver that’s remoting in from the other side of the world is used to driving on that side of the road
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u/mweesnaw 9d ago
Me hoy waymoy