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Re:Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San ... by kt9 on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @07:31PM (#13181167)
Looks like the video was taken by a dash cam from a police car - am I reading that right?

If thats true I wonder why the cop didn't pull the uber over.

edit: This also leads to another question - how does a cop pull a self driving car over? Does the car know to respond to police lights? And if it does pull over then who does the cop talk to?

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Re:Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San ... by maxerickson on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @07:38PM (#13181212)
The video, published by the San Francisco Examiner, was captured by a dashcam mounted inside a vehicle operated by Luxor Cab, one of SF’s licensed cab companies.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/uber-looking-into-incident...

The car certainly should know how to respond to police lights/sirens. I was reading Google's monthly reports on their cars and they were talking about adding a pull over response to their system.

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Re:Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San ... by stuckagain on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @07:34PM (#13181190)
It's a taxi, actually. I'm sure they were delighted to get this video.
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Re:Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San ... by russell_h on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @07:33PM (#13181185)
It was a taxi.
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Re:Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San ... by return0 on Thursday December 15, 2016 @05:33AM (#13183651)
> And if it does pull over then who does the cop talk to?

It's going to be even funnier when the patrol car is an unmanned self-driving bot itself.

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