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Self-driving cars go on strike in San Francisco?

Asked by elbanditoroso (33577points) August 14th, 2023

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Sort of a universal control-alt-delete reset for Robotaxis this weekend.

Will we ever learn how this sort of thing occurs?

And can the electric doors in a self-driving vehicle be overridden by passengers?

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zenvelo's avatar

What has yet to be explained is why these cars all went to North Beach when the company said the fiasco was because of demand from the Outside Lands Festival across town.

elbanditoroso's avatar

@zenvelo good question. Also makes me wonder how dependent these cars are on the 4G-5G cell system, and how they would navigate if there were a power failure that took out cell service.

Blackwater_Park's avatar

This has all the hallmarks of telecommunication failure somewhere.

janbb's avatar

Oy vey!

MrGrimm888's avatar

Just the beginning of who knows what, as we integrate “robots” into our society…

Zaku's avatar

LOL. Just the tip of the iceberg of what’s possible to go wrong with self-driving cars.

RocketGuy's avatar

In Hot Tub Time Machine 2, someone insults a self-driving car so it stalks him during the whole movie.

zenvelo's avatar

Yesterday, a self driving car could not discern that the cones in the road were there because the concrete had just been poured.

janbb's avatar

It’s too soon. Pull back the expansion and go back to the drawing board!

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