Saturday, February 17, 2024

Waymo Issues Recall After 2 Self-driving Cars Hit Same Truck

Waymo says two of its cars collided with the same pickup truck that was being towed in an unusual orientation.

Posted by LampLighter at 07:32 PM | 5 COMMENTS | permalink

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... Self-driving firm Waymo has issued a recall after two separate autonomous vehicles struck the same vehicle that was being towed.

Waymo says on Dec. 11 in Phoenix, Arizona, one of its cars collided with a pickup truck that was being towed across several lanes of traffic. Minutes later, a second Waymo vehicle struck the same truck.

The truck was being towed backwards. Waymo said it was oriented in such a way that it occupied portions of two lanes at the same time.

The collisions took place at low speeds and did not injure anyone, Waymo said. There were no passengers in the Waymo vehicles at the time. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-17 06:43 PM

This whole self-driving car thing on public roads is starting to look more and more like a massive beta-test.

A beta-test in which the participants cannot either opt to be a participant in, or opt out of.

Big-Tech gone amok. Again.

Yet again.


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-17 06:45 PM

I think most things will be AI in the next 20 or 30 years ; definitely in the later half of this century. All tractor-trailer trucks, jet-travel, and personal vehicles will be AI. However, at the present time, my advice to young people....Wait till they get the bugs out!

#3 | Posted by shane at 2024-02-18 12:40 PM

"I think most things will be AI in the next 20 or 30 years"

And there will be no accountability or redress for the false information masquerading as truth, and Republicans will call it a victory for freedom of speech. Just like they do today.

You have never heard a Republican defend freedom of speech when it isn't speaking Nazi propaganda, and you never will.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-18 12:47 PM

This whole self-driving car thing on public roads is starting to look more and more like a massive beta-test.

How so?

Wait till they get the bugs out!

They are never "out."

#4 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

What a hilarious unaware post.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-02-19 12:14 PM

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