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Re:Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise ... by BurningFrog on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:00PM (#34588617)
To spell it out, if an SDC Taxi stops for anyone waving frantically, how do you prevent robbers and rapists from routinely harvesting their passengers?
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Re:Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise ... by polygamous_bat on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:03PM (#34588648)
Exactly how you stop people from flagging a human driven taxi with plights for help and then robbing or raping the passenger. This doesn't seem like a problem specific to self driving.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1958/

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Re:Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise ... by BurningFrog on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:38PM (#34589076)
A Taxi has a sober human driver with professional experience to handle such situations.

A piece of software with some cameras and actuators is really not the same.

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