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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by Cd00d on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:00PM (#21466524)
Why didn't your school bus have a stop sign deployed? Those are for exactly this risk. Running a school bus stop sign I believe is a more significant violation than running post-stop signs.
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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by tialaramex on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:05PM (#21467288)
What school bus? Did I say school bus?

It was simply a bus. Specifically it was the hourly bus from the nearest large town (where my new school was) to the village I grew up in.

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by brollactor on Thursday November 07, 2019 @01:05AM (#21470838)
In London, children take the same double decker buses everyone else takes. There’s no “school bus” like they do in the US. This is also true for Germany and the Netherlands where I’ve lived as well.
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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by tarsinge on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:36PM (#21466938)
Unfortunately they don’t exist in a lot of countries.
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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday November 07, 2019 @01:11AM (#21470866)
Do they exist in any country other than the USA?
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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by tekknik on Thursday November 07, 2019 @07:45AM (#21472674)
Plenty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_bus_by_country

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday November 07, 2019 @03:06PM (#21476800)
Soon Asia none of those are public school buses, especially China where they are all private buses painted yellow and have no special treatment (no stop sign popping out of the side). Similar differences exist in Europe. Or I guess my point is, none of these systems come even close to resembling what we ache in the USA and Canada.
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