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California allows robo-taxis to expand and emergency responders aren't happy (www.npr.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Big difference is that a human can be yelled at and told what to do, and we currently don't have a good way for someone to do that with an autonomous vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As far as I'm aware, all autonomous vehicles have manual controls that can override them. The person inside the vehicle would have to take over when an emergency responder started yelling directions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Some of the vehicles don't have anyone in them.

https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/waymo-cruise-fire-department-police-san-francisco/

One of the incidents in question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, you can just ram them out of the way with your firetruck. Obviously that's not a great option either, but if the FD does that then any damages are on the robot-taxi company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Sure, I suppose. Or just don't expand the system until there's some measure of system in place to keep the AI cars from fucking around in emergency situations.