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Re:Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll by anikan_vader on Friday May 06, 2022 @05:58PM (#31289983)
The car pulls out and immediately fails to yield to two pedestrians at a crosswalk at 0:54. One of the pedestrians is in the crosswalk.
Re:Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll by aeyes on Friday May 06, 2022 @06:36PM (#31290268)
It also has a traffic light so I guess this isn't a crosswalk where the car has to yield. The pedestrian isn't really in the crosswalk, there is a yellow dashed line.

Very confusing but I guess: Different countries, different rules.

1:44 is also confusing, no signs at all so the car should yield to the car coming from the right.

3:35 looks dangerous, pulling left into the scooter.

10:00 he says that it is very challenging to drive in Jerusalem and that you can drive everywhere if you can do it there. I haven't seen anything challenging up to this point in the video, all roads are clearly marked, no potholes, almost no traffic, lots of signs. This looks very easy to me.

Re:Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll by Hamuko on Friday May 06, 2022 @06:49PM (#31290353)
1:44 might have a yield sign behind the no entry sign. Looking at Google Maps, it might be 16 HaMatmid Alley, and in the 2011 Street View photos there appears to be a yield sign behind the no entry sign.
Re:Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll by Hamuko on Friday May 06, 2022 @06:14PM (#31290120)
The car did have the right of way though, as the crosswalk had a red light on. As to why one of the pedestrians decided to stand in middle of the road during a red light, I have no idea.
Re:Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll by robonerd on Friday May 06, 2022 @06:37PM (#31290271)
That might be the way it works in Israel, but it's not a safe way to drive even if the law permits it. In Washington state, every intersection is a crosswalk whether or not it's marked, and you have to stop for any pedestrian crossing an intersection whether or not the light says the pedestrian can be there.

I hope these car companies get local laws right. But it would be best if they did the safe thing even if local laws didn't require it.

Re:Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll by Hamuko on Friday May 06, 2022 @06:50PM (#31290360)
It's not a safe way to walk either, and I don't know where walking against a red light is legal.
Re:Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll by robonerd on Friday May 06, 2022 @07:20PM (#31290560)
Walking through a red-light is illegal and so is driving through a green light when somebody is improperly walking through the intersection. There's no contradiction here.
Re:Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll by zip1234 on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:41PM (#31291123)
In England it is legal as long as the walker determines it is safe to do so.
Re:Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll by colinmhayes on Friday May 06, 2022 @06:45PM (#31290326)
Just like a real person :)