Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise taxi to stop it

Re:Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise ... by mr_toad on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:53PM (#34588531)

> Note that when I am doing traffic direction with appropriate authority, most drivers will never have heard of the organization I'm a part of

Reading between the lines it doesn’t seem like there’s a lot of communication to emergency services etc on how to deal with autonomous vehicles.

Even the police seem to be operating under misconceptions about what the vehicles can and can’t do.

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Re:Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise ... by maxerickson on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:10PM (#34588747)

Isn't it the vehicle operators operating the vehicles while ignoring that there are things that the vehicles must do in certain scenarios to be suitable for operation?

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Re:Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise ... by ocdtrekkie on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:10PM (#34588750)

So there's no monolithic entity that handles public safety in any given area. Overlapping jurisdictions of police, fire, public works, utility companies, construction companies, volunteer orgs, etc. all will end up on the streets for different reasons.

If self-driving cars cannot cope with this, they should not be allowed on public roads. Very little has convinced me they should currently be street legal.

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