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Those stupid autonomous cars...
We've got a fleet of EV-Bolts in SFO apparently authorized to drive around "autonomously", or more like "learning to drive" apparently... I really wish that fleet would stay the #$$% off the roads at commute hours...
A month or so ago we witnessed one just do emergency stops mid intersection and almost get rear-ended twice, no apparent reason, no pedestrians, nothing.. just drops anchors with no-one around. The guy behind was not pleased, and it did it again at the next intersection !
Today I am following one in traffic (other lane, I'm not crazy), and it just stops in a traffic jam and refuses to go when the lane moves... People flow around it and that caused at least 3 near misses I saw from my vantage point...
I get away from it, but the stupid thing catches up with me, and starts drifting into my lane like I'm not here.. It must have changed its feeble mind maybe 2" from my door when the chaperon yanked the wheel or something. WTF ? Are we rushing this maybe ?
I get that they need testing, I wish it weren't at my expense or at rush hour... Not ready... I know there's someone on this board that works on those, I'm sure it's hard tech to get right and probably quite interesting, but FYI, it's NOT right yet, not by a long shot... Those things are a menace...
Last edited by Deschodt; 12-07-2017 at 01:25 PM..
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