Waymo (aka Google) admits that it trains its robotaxis to break the law. When WaPo reporter finds robotaxis fail to stop for pedestrians in marked crosswalk 70% of the time, Waymo says it follows "social norms" rather than laws.
Expert explains: When robotaxis obey law, they don't go fast enough to compete successfully with Uber, so Google execs ordered engineers to ignore laws.
https://wapo.st/3ZZDifm
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@BenRossTransit "safer than human drivers" they said
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@stevenbodzin @BenRossTransit «We meant drunk drivers. Safer than drunk drivers.»
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@toriver @stevenbodzin @BenRossTransit Not necessarily.
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@samhainnight @toriver @stevenbodzin @BenRossTransit yeah, my sense is that the vast majority dangerous driving is done sober. People are given poorly-designed infrastructure and pushed to do more stuff in less time. Efficiency is such a funny word in the era of enshittification
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@tsyum use real words, you lost me when you used that word to describe a complex problem
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Safer for whom?
Not the unsuspecting pedestrian.
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@BenRossTransit NYS is already OK with law breaking enabling behavior of Google Maps and Waze. Should be OK with Waymo too I suppose.. Maybe they'll employ devices that cover their license plates automatically also because that's becoming a norm.
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@Iragersh @BenRossTransit You're not going to tell us how Google Maps breaks the law?
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@jenzi @BenRossTransit
speed gun or radar warnings? Creating distracting devices? Can you enter a warning into their system without taking your eyes off the road?
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@Iragersh @BenRossTransit Ok so not really because drivers don't have to do those things and most don't ... or have evolved to not fall into the false dichotomy trap laid for them
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@Iragersh @jenzi @BenRossTransit plenty of cars have more than one person in them
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@BenRossTransit The social norm is to take preventative action against threats. 😼
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@Nazani @BenRossTransit
⬆️ FACT.
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@BenRossTransit Aha! I knew something was happening with the aggressiveness of their algorithm when one of them tried to beat a Muni bus at a light and nearly hit me!
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@tito_swineflu @BenRossTransit Straight up, I will not go to San Francisco anymore because I don't want to get hit with one of these things.
Yes, I could be hit by a car anywhere in America, but I don't mind as much the idea of being run down by human error.
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@sidereal @BenRossTransit i think the normal drivers are about 1000x more likely to kill you, which is reason enough to stay away
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@tito_swineflu @sidereal @BenRossTransit From paved surfaces?
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@fgbjr @sidereal @BenRossTransit i don't understand
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@tito_swineflu @sidereal @BenRossTransit If drivers are 1000x more likely to kill you than a self-driving car, that sounds pretty dangerous. So like parking lots, roads, sidewalks, places like that not be safe. But maybe I misunderstood. Just erring on the side of caution. 😉
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@fgbjr @sidereal @BenRossTransit you should also avoid going into stores: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/sanfrancisco/news/car-crashes-into-walgreens-store-in-san-franciscos-west-portal-2-injured/
Especially 7-11s: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sbsun.com/2023/02/08/one-mans-case-reveals-cars-slam-into-storefronts-like-7-eleven-with-alarming-frequency/amp/
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@tito_swineflu @sidereal @BenRossTransit I narrowly escaped the onslaught by leaving the country 35 years ago.
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@BenRossTransit
The way of thinking of average car-guys programmed into Artificial Intelligence. What can possibly go wrong.
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@BenRossTransit Sounds like a fantastic municipal revenue opportunity
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@vees @BenRossTransit How do you ticket a self driving car anyway? Would they even pull over for a cop? And if they did, how do you get the driver's license and registration?
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@samhainnight @BenRossTransit Impound it and wait to see who shows up to collect it
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@vees @BenRossTransit Oo! I like that!
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@samhainnight
I've watched videos of this. When cop walks up, the window rolls down and "connected to driver support. This call may be recorded for public reassurance." Then there's a conversation between cop and human playing back footage to see what happened. 🤦♀️🤦♀️
@vees @BenRossTransit
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@juliewebgirl @vees @BenRossTransit So if a self driving car has too many tickets, who loses their license?
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@samhainnight
Or if they cause a death... who gets charged? Who goes to prison?
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@juliewebgirl @vees @BenRossTransit Exactly!
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@BenRossTransit When individual breaks a law, he broke it. In this case it's a decisive decision to disobey laws en mass by execs and then by engineers. This should be criminalized to full extent because they are literally normalizing breaking the law.
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@BenRossTransit So.... I'm just going to assume that when (if?) they start appearing on roads over here putting traffic cones on them is considered following social laws 😎
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@deightonrobbie @BenRossTransit A good reason to save those traffic cones!
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@Iragersh @deightonrobbie @BenRossTransit like any other human driver, the self driving car should just get out and remove the cone.
...
Oh!
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@BenRossTransit
archived:
http://archive.today/y3mxB
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@BenRossTransit Then it is a socially accepted norm to block these robotaxis from the streets.
Venture capitalists and big tech always skirt the laws because they know it will take a long while to amend and modernize said laws to include their blatant violations.
It's time for a change in which new technologies and services are put under heavy scrutiny before they are allowed to operate freely. People before capitalism.
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@BenRossTransit
So...who pays the ticket and who gets their license taken away if they get repeatedly caught breaking traffic laws?
Human drivers can lose the privilege of driving...so should programs.
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@BenRossTransit If only child prams wouldn't be so expensive, someone could walk a town with a one full of bricks...
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@BenRossTransit That "free" link only works for people who have a WaPo account.
Here's a truly free version: https://archive.is/y3mxB
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@BenRossTransit
Ah, we're just gonna keep grafting toxic + discriminatory "societal norms" onto our tech, aren't we . . .
And speaking of crosswalks:
Drivers of expensive cars less likely to yield for pedestrians
Researchers also found that motorists overall yielded less frequently for men and non-whites
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200226171110.htm
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And, lastly, this gem (though, to have an impact on Waymos, a real brick may be required)
[#]fuckCars
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@dusk @BenRossTransit Gonna campaign for a pedestrian crossing that raises spike strips on either side whenever someone is using it
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@gregly
So the car's tires get shredded and it can't steer or stop? Doesn't sound safe to me, but it would definitely discourage drivers!
@dusk @BenRossTransit
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@BenRossTransit
New "social norm" on the horizon:
Pedestrians carrying baseball bats to smash the shit out of any autonomous vehicles that fail to stop when a pedestrian enters a designated crosswalk.
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@BenRossTransit
"the oligarch and their toys exist outside law and without order" - a nation with the largest prison population on Earth
Dystopia is built one lie at a time, like bricks only broken
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@BenRossTransit @nblr A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
well so much for that... did not last long eh Asimov... profit over people... :(
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@jeroen Those laws imho are fundamentally flawed and were just created to prove the very same ad nauseam and in too many works.
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@nblr yep, that is quite true; humans will use any tool possible to get ahead irrespective if that is good for humans, animals or the planet.... short lived gains...
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@jeroen That was a comment re: asimov’s œuvre rather than humans.
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@BenRossTransit
Cool cool.
I think Luigi has established some new social norms as well.
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@BenRossTransit
I can say from personal experience that I find this 100% true. I was in SF and trying to cross Market where Kearney and Geary intersect. The robotaxi was trying to turn (I recall it was a left onto Kearny) but was confused by the lights and multiple crosswalks, and eventually drove through the intersection even though there were pedestrians, including me, in the crosswalk. Damn thing just missed us.
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@BenRossTransit a lot of people telling lies in this thread
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@BenRossTransit I hope people sabotage the shit out of those invading things. Just another way for corporations to steal the city from people living in it.
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@BenRossTransit
I wish they tried that at the Border in Ireland, like in the movie "Cal" !
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@BenRossTransit Those taking and supporting this industry need to be aware of what they are supporting.
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@BenRossTransit let's just assume, for LOLs, that a human driver might be prosecuted for breaking the rules at a crossing (as he would be in the UK or EU).
Who would you prosecute in the case of a so-called autonomous vehicle? Do we even know?
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@fishidwardrobe @BenRossTransit Because Waymo own it, and do the hardware/software, them. Now imagine it was a privately owned Tesla in 'Full (of shite) self-driving' mode? Owner or Tesla?
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@robincapper @BenRossTransit hmm. if I'm driving a regular vehicle and my brakes fail so I can't stop at a crossing, or when a cop tells me to, say — am I liable or is the manufacturer? Even if it turns out the failure is a vehicle design fault? I suspect I'm still liable.
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@BenRossTransit Yup, and the problem with letting robotaxi fleets follow "norms" is their unique ability to subtly and unaccountably change those "norms" by changing their programming. I wrote about this last year: https://scott.mn/2023/08/19/bad_incentives_make_autonomous_vehicles_unsafe/
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@BenRossTransit
I felt more secure in the waymos I have tried compared to the ubers I used in the same area
@Viss
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