alt Hacker News> if human drivers are having to go around them, they’re not doing the right thing
They're not. But it's also not a disaster. Pretending it is on Twitter is pandering, not policymaking.
> They need to drive or pull over. Never just stop there in the road and wait
Agreed. Waymo has a lesson to learn from. Sacramento, and the NHTSA, similarly, need to draw up emergency minimums for self-driving cars.
There are productive responses to this episode. None of them involve flipping out on X.
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> Waymo has a lesson to learn from.
At what point can we be spared from having Waymos lessons inflicted upon us
No, it's not a disaster, but with a little imagination it could be a hormetic innoculation.
> They're not.
They are. I did myself yesterday because one was sitting at the front of a turning lane at a dead light, just waiting there forever with the blinker on.
waymos shouldn't exist, and san francisco shouldn't just be a experimentation lab for tech companies
> But it's also not a disaster
Because it’s a power outage. If we instead learned about this during a real disaster people could have died because these things were let on the road without planning what they should do in abnormal circumstances.
We’re lucky it’s not a disaster.