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Driverless shuttle crashes on first day of service in downtown Las Vegas
news3lv.com ^ | November 8, 2017

Posted on 11/08/2017 2:58:35 PM PST by lowbridge

Las Vegas is the first city in America to have a self-driving shuttle operating in real-time traffic.

However, in its first hour of service in downtown Las Vegas, the shuttle collided with a semi-truck. There has been no report of injuries at this time.

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1 posted on 11/08/2017 2:58:35 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
Instead of a schedule, the driverless shuttle should have odds of arrival.

-PJ

2 posted on 11/08/2017 2:59:58 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: lowbridge

Stevie Wonder saw this coming.


3 posted on 11/08/2017 3:00:29 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: lowbridge

No surprise


4 posted on 11/08/2017 3:03:50 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: lowbridge

What could go wrong?

Bwahahahaha


5 posted on 11/08/2017 3:09:38 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: lowbridge

“God help us, we’re in the hands of engineers.”


6 posted on 11/08/2017 3:14:46 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: lowbridge

Here’s the part everybody will ignore:

The driver of the truck was cited by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.


7 posted on 11/08/2017 3:16:37 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: lowbridge

almost anyone could have foreseen this


8 posted on 11/08/2017 3:33:24 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Moonman62

So the question of the hour would be: would a shuttle with a driver have been able to avoid the collision? Granted, the human was at fault in this case.


9 posted on 11/08/2017 3:34:01 PM PST by the_Watchman
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To: Hugin

I’d rather be in the hands of engineers than in the hands of lawyers and politicians.

Shuttles with drivers crash. People don’t go crazy when that happens. Certainly I’m not happy to hear that a driverless vehicle crashed, but one huge difference between a human crash and a robotic crash is that with the robotic crash, engineers can learn from it and prevent it from happening again. With a human driver, each one has to learn to drive from from a knowledge base of zero and when one makes a mistake it can’t be fixed or prevented in all the others.


10 posted on 11/08/2017 3:36:37 PM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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“... the crash was caused by the truck backing into the shuttle at the time and was a result of human error, with the driver of the truck cited.”


11 posted on 11/08/2017 3:38:33 PM PST by Gideon7
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To: the_Watchman

From what I’ve read, driverless are are involved in a higher than average number of accidents. But the human drivers are almost always at fault from a legal standpoint. Most likely this is because the driverless cars don’t give off the same subtle cues as human drivers.


12 posted on 11/08/2017 3:40:17 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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“Shuttles with drivers crash”

Not usually within the first hour on the job. You can ride with one if you want, I won’t.


13 posted on 11/08/2017 3:51:41 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: lowbridge

truck driver probably purposely did it, since truck drivers see driverless cars as a massive threat.


14 posted on 11/08/2017 4:43:26 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Nifster

I’ve taken rides in them. It is really amazing to take the ride. The ones I have been in were very slow.


15 posted on 11/08/2017 5:15:04 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Hugin

Don’t ascribe the blame to Engineering, for it was Marketing that foisted this upon the world.


16 posted on 11/08/2017 6:18:14 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: the_Watchman

The human is always at fault.

The robot is never at fault, nor cited. Welcome to the new robotic age of deceipt.


17 posted on 11/08/2017 7:34:24 PM PST by TheNext (FBI FAKE STORY: Lone Shooter, But Died)
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To: Moonman62

The average driverless, robot vehicle has 83 accidents.

Robot driving records are ignored. The State wants you to rent your car, and darn it, it will happen.


18 posted on 11/08/2017 7:40:21 PM PST by TheNext (FBI FAKE STORY: Lone Shooter, But Died)
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To: lowbridge
HAL: It can only be attributable to human error.
19 posted on 11/08/2017 7:45:11 PM PST by Daaave ("Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?")
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To: lowbridge

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto!


20 posted on 11/08/2017 8:11:52 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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