Re:Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
by DavidSJ on Sunday October 10, 2010 @01:59AM
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Where do you live that drivers through bottles at cyclists, and how common is this?
Happens in London. Not the city centre, but most of the sticks around that.
Anecdotal evidence is this blog, the link is to the first of a growing number of entries. http://www.101wankers.com/?paged=2
It happened to me in Providence, RI. Fortunately, they missed.
depends on where you are. I've never seen it happen in the sf bay area, but it was a pretty common occurrence where I grew up in the central valley, several hundred miles away.
Re:Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
by erikpukinskis on Saturday October 16, 2010 @02:24PM
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I live in San Diego. It's happened to me once or twice.
Re:Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
by roadnottaken on Monday October 11, 2010 @06:53AM
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When we get self-driving bikes they'll be able to navigate around human OR robotic cars much more effectively and then you can just relax.
What makes me feel unsafe are the drivers who break the law (you don't know who you are) and the drivers who hate cyclists and pass us as closely as possible, throw bottles at us, etc (you do know who you are).
What makes me feel unsafe is the unpredictability. I would expect a computer would just follow the rules exactly and be very easy to bike around.