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by Animats 3287 days ago
"(Cops) can follow self-driving cars all day but won’t be able to pull them over."

Yes, that's going to be interesting. I'm waiting for an event when some small-town sheriff pulls over a Waymo self-driving car without justification, and Waymo shows up in court with lawyers, full imagery, LIDAR scans, GPS info, a complete video reconstruction of the event, and the browsing history of the sheriff.
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jacquesm 3287 days ago
For now they still have trouble staying in their lane, I don't see any lack of reasons to pull them over, in fact I'd love to see them taken off the roads entirely until such bugs have been ironed out. Public roads are not the place to beta test software.
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Animats 3287 days ago
Tesla's system is quite good at lane-keeping where there are clear lane lines. Their problem is ramming into stationary obstacles in lane.
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jacquesm 3287 days ago
Yes, but 'where there are clear lane lines' is exactly the problem. I know plenty of places where there are no clear lane lines. If every one of those is an accident waiting to happen then we first should invest in some kind of minimal level road markings. And even then you'll have plenty of exceptions.
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