“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month.
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.
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”.
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.