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Re:San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess ... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:03PM (#36434263)
The closest I've come to this scenario is playing games (eg CSGO) where you can take over a bot. So often, I take over a bot (without spectating their play first) and immediately die because I have no context for their situation and they're about to be shot at; in many of those situations I feel there bot would have done better than I did.

This makes me feel a human operator probably would be no good at taking control ... however a computer that has access to more data (eg data from other vehicles), or that has more control (of other vehicles, of traffic lights, of pedestrian crossings, etc.) or more capabilities, might be far more successful than a person?!

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Re:San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess ... by soco on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:41PM (#36434878)
I don't see how the situation is similar. The robotaxi is parked in front of you, you connect to it and move it away. The entire context is right there.
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Re:San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess ... by wholinator2 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @01:49PM (#36435994)
well honestly, if we're saying that the person being inconvenienced is the one who gets to take control, there's probably gonna be a lot of angry people driving these cars off of bridges or into ditches or something. Giving an incredibly frustrated person control of a separate car, though better for context, is probably worse for desired outcome.
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Re:San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess ... by soco on Friday June 23, 2023 @04:57AM (#36444414)
How about the robotaxi company driving in respect to regulations and other's property, then we wouldn't have this discussion. Oh, it's technically not possible? Well, then don't drive them.
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Re:San Francisco fire chief fed up with robotaxis that mess ... by junon on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:30PM (#36434664)
Ehhh I think you give too much credit to CSGO bots.
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