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White, the Austin police official, said Waymos can get stuck when they’re forced to interact with people. “The human element is what’s killing them,” he says. “The moment you introduce the human element, [the vehicles] lack that social awareness of what to do, and they freeze.” Freezing creates “a significant danger to public safety,” he told federal regulators.
Nothing to see here. Carry on.
And floods, apparently. Can't find it anymore, but there's a pic where a Waymo got stuck in a flooded street right under a sign saying "don't use when flooded".
But of course the inhuman aspect is worse.
Said something about how an ambulance was blocked for quite a while waitng for one of these stupid things to move.
Um, push it out of the way. Not like an ambulance is small. Get them all push bars and move those fucking pieces of shit with a good shove. Tell the people in the Waymo to GTFO and then push the fucking thing over.
Then send Waymo a bill for any damages to the ambulance, cop car, fire truck, etc.
Why is this so hard? I'm not normally a fan of brute force and ignorance, but it does have it's uses. Waymo isn't doing anything because there are no consequences. They don't come to meetings, they don't fix the problem and they issue bullshit public statements that mean nothing. Fine, you want to choose the "do nothing" option, we'll choose the "shove your stupid piece of shit high-school science project into a ditch" option.
Waymo spokesperson Julia Ilina wrote: “We deeply value our partnership with first responders and our shared commitment to safety. Their ongoing feedback has been instrumental in driving impactful improvements to the Waymo service.” [...] The company says it has conducted in-person training for more than 35,000 emergency responders across the country.
Instead of adapting Waymo to the needs of humans and emergency services, let's just tell them how they need to change to fit us instead!
reflect long-simmering and sometimes vocal frustrations expressed by city leaders since at least late last year. Since autonomous vehicle operations are regulated in California and Texas by state rather than city officials, local first-responder departments and those who represent them can generally only request that developers like Waymo make specific changes to their operations.
Sounds like they don't really value those relationships like they claim to.
to connect [...] with Waymo operators to move the vehicle, [...] it had taken up to three minutes to connect with a remote agent in the past. They reiterated that Waymos don’t always respond well to hand signals, especially ones from police mounted on motorcycles. Waymo declined to attend the meeting [...] the Waymo spokesperson, said the company has "already had the substantive conversations this moment calls for,” and said the company has answered questions from city officials.
Translation: we're tired of listening to you, get out of our way and let our cars run free!
“We will keep working with Austin's leadership and first-responder community, because ongoing collaboration is how we build the trust this city deserves and make Austin’s streets safer,” she wrote.
Lol, that's not at all what you're doing. Are you taking Republican lessons in lying, double-speak, and aggressive non-listening?
They‘re probably learning that reckless driving gets you there faster… or not at all and they just take the gamble. Basically bad parameters, I‘m guessing.
