Instead of running a red light or hitting a pole self-driving cars drive full speed under a trailer and decapitate everybody, or someone falls against the car and it detects an accident and decides to pull over and slooowly runs over the person and drags them down the street ignoring all the screaming. The kind of accidents society is desensitized to are the ones they taught the car how to avoid, the fucked up shit where somebody gets hydraulically pressed to death in slow motion while 15 people film it on their phones is what Waymo is going to do.
Atleast with the running over pedestrian scenario, I would think the passengers have a manual way to interrupt program logic/stop.
Also, you’d best believe truck decapitations happened a lot without self driving, enough to mandate that trailers have those guardrails below their unloading doors.
Yeah, they had to change things, the person was hit by a human driver and flung in the self driving cars path and the human driver drove off. The self driving car didn’t know what to do and dragged the body to the side of the road basically. None of these incidents took place by a Waymo vehicle though. Waymo has had to shoulder the shit that Tesla and other companies have put out. GM as you said making that “mistake”.
Im assuming they wanted to avoid having people get hit from behind when stopped in the middle of the road, hence the whole auto pull over thing.
But yeah they should still have a kill switch, maybe make it activate the slow and pull over protocol above a certain speed, or dead stop if operating at a slow speed?
Instead of running a red light or hitting a pole self-driving cars drive full speed under a trailer and decapitate everybody, or someone falls against the car and it detects an accident and decides to pull over and slooowly runs over the person and drags them down the street ignoring all the screaming. The kind of accidents society is desensitized to are the ones they taught the car how to avoid, the fucked up shit where somebody gets hydraulically pressed to death in slow motion while 15 people film it on their phones is what Waymo is going to do.
Atleast with the running over pedestrian scenario, I would think the passengers have a manual way to interrupt program logic/stop.
Also, you’d best believe truck decapitations happened a lot without self driving, enough to mandate that trailers have those guardrails below their unloading doors.
The dragging incident actually happened in 2024 with a different self-driving car company (Cruise by General Motors) https://www.ktvu.com/news/cruise-fined-500000-filing-false-report-about-driverless-car-dragging-pedestrian.amp They tried to cover it up too. By the end of that year, GM had stopped funding Cruise and driverless taxis, and is now focusing only on driver-assist features.
Yeah, they had to change things, the person was hit by a human driver and flung in the self driving cars path and the human driver drove off. The self driving car didn’t know what to do and dragged the body to the side of the road basically. None of these incidents took place by a Waymo vehicle though. Waymo has had to shoulder the shit that Tesla and other companies have put out. GM as you said making that “mistake”.
I really dont know why there arent big E stop buttons like on every other large piece of equipment that can severely harm you
Im assuming they wanted to avoid having people get hit from behind when stopped in the middle of the road, hence the whole auto pull over thing.
But yeah they should still have a kill switch, maybe make it activate the slow and pull over protocol above a certain speed, or dead stop if operating at a slow speed?