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Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by choppaface on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:08PM (#38004722)
I’ve been nearly hit by a Waymo as a pedestrian when the thing could see me well before it passed.

I hate that they use giant SUVs, really inappropriate car for small city streets even if people love SUVs.

Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by londons_explore on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:00PM (#38006267)
If this ever happens to you or anyone else here, drop them a message with the date/time/place that it happened, and they will watch the footage and probably adjust stuff to not be scary in the future. Without human feedback, it's really hard to program a machine to understand "scary", even if the machine has calculated that it won't hit you.

https://waymo.com/contact/ is the place to go.

Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by blub on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:40AM (#38009516)
You’re subtly gaslighting the parent poster by implying the car couldn’t have hit them and that it was just being “scary”.
Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by hoseja on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @02:22AM (#38009763)
Well, has it hit them? Fully automated intersection would be very "scary" for a slow meatbag, yet without accidents.
Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by __loam on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @07:42PM (#38007246)
Waymo uses pretty small jaguar crossovers. Zoox uses suvs.
Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by choppaface on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @11:53PM (#38008950)
The Jaguar iPace is a full 4-door SUV, not a hatchback or a Rav4. Just because the rear hatch tapers down doesn't make the car smaller from a safety standpoint.

Jaguar iPace: 4800lbs, 79inch wide, 183 inches long

Pacifica: 4500lbs, 79inch wide, 204 inches long

Toyota Highlander: 4400lbs, 76inches wide, 194 inches long

Chevy Bolt: 3500lbs, 69inches wide, 163 inches long

The iPace might be great for LA but for SF it's totally inappropriate.

Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by __loam on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @12:25AM (#38009104)
They look smaller than a lot of the suvs I see in the city while living here.