Posted on 10/14/2021 6:57:09 PM PDT by blueplum
...The cars — equipped with technology and a human driver in case of emergencies — appear completely baffled as they take in the street and make a multi-point turn to get out of the dead end, CBS San Francisco reported. Not long after one car is gone, another one shows up and does the same thing. And it never really stops, according to the street's residents....
...The company was originally Google's self-driving car project before becoming a separate subsidiary of the tech giant's parent, Alphabet. It launched a ride-hailing program with its self-driving vehicles in San Francisco for "Trusted Testers" in August, reported TechCrunch.
"We have talked to the drivers who don't have much to say other than the car is programmed, and they're just doing their job," King told CBS San Francisco. Neighbors said they don't often see passengers....
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Bad digital map. Missing attribute.
Self-driving cars are a dead end ?
Do this on the wrong street in L.A. and you’re not turning around.
Map is wrong.
Some maps show dead ends going through.
They check in....but they don’t check out.
I would not trust anything I could not control!
I noticed some streets in SoCal dead end and the same street starts several blocks later.
That’s the location of Hotel California.
They can check out any time they want but they can never leave.
I get the same thing constantly on my dead end block with human drivers and multiple signs warning of the dead end.
It’s hilarious when you see these people sitting in these cars...I don’t know why, but they look so damn funny...I see them as people who can’t pass the driving test! All that technology, 500 mile of wiring in these vehicle, all the cameras/computers/sensors et al, just to drive a mile to Walmart.
Trust your robot overlords. They will get you where you need to go, citizens.
“Self-driving cars keep turning down a dead-end San Francisco street. Neighbors say they come “every 5 minutes.””
hmmm ... maybe those self-driving cars know something that their programmers don’t ...
Years ago, Google said my parents’ driveway was a road, so we had many cars coming up until I contacted Google and they fixed the ma fairly quickly.
Once, 1960s, I used a map that failed to show a 20’ concrete vertical discontinuity on a San Francisco “through street”. Took quite a while to navigate around it, and get back on course.
Maps do have their flaws; some on purpose for copyright purposes; some, just plain human error.
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