• froh42@lemmy.world
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    Oh nooo the robot was blinded by traffic lights says the company.

    WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

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      It cannot be blinded. What an incredibly bold statement, unless they aim to go bankrupt soon anyway

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      I’m not saying the robot is “right”, but the number of people crusing around with their high beams on as a matter of corse, is as they saying goes, too damn high. So I can absolutely believe that a vehicle’s high beams limited its “vision” because that regularly happens to me driving and as a pedestrian.

      Now if the robot fled the scene that’s a completely different issue for which it’s operators are responsible.

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        I’m not saying that you’re “wrong”, but the idea of giving the benefit of the doubt to a piece of technology in service of a corporation is, as the saying goes, bonkers.

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        If those high beams are legal, then all that means is the robot can’t safely operate under normal/legal conditions. If it can’t operate safely, why is it allowed in public?

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          High beams are NOT legal in the city. And they were in all likelyhood not being used in this scenario.

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            Yeah, for some reason I read high beams and just thought of the bright LEDs everyone has. Either way, I agree that it doesn’t make sense to blame high beams.

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          It’s not legal to use them in a city. If you’re blinding someone with them, it’s not legal (at least in my US state)

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        I doubt the bus driver was using high beams in the city, there’s no point at these speeds and it’s illegal anyway.