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As someone who’s worked in an engineering field. This response is almost certainly saying “we currently can’t do this reliably” and hoping nobody will force them to.
Or “we don’t care enough to do it”
They are basically admitting their taxis can’t handle pedestrians and small vehicles. Do they see motorbikes? If they can’t be programmed to deal with bike lanes, can they also not be programmed to use slip lanes correctly? What about merge points? How do they go with English multilane 6-way roundabouts?
They could, they just don’t want to. The reality is the Uber driver dropping someone off doesn’t think twice about pulling into a bike lane and blocking a main road with the 4 ways.
This is one of those things that exposes the fact that almost no driver drives to the letter of the law and in fact break the traffic laws pretty often.
That’s fine because humans can be held responsible for their actions. Who is held responsible when a waymo kills 6 people in a peloton or drags some poor guy who was just on his way to work for 6 blocks? Will the company receive a mostly inconsequential fine and carry on with their fuckery?
Yeah but Ubers just play with different rules, basically
Yeah, I’m not saying they are right or wrong it’s just that Google is in the Uber business and wants to play by the same rules.
Uber just gets to tacitly ignore the issues and pretend like it’s the drivers fault ( which is a nice feature of the gig economy bullshit)
I’m sure the waymo riders would be happy to be dropped off in the the car lane too.
Then Waymo shouldnt be surprised if cyclists destroy their vehicles because they can’t obey traffic regulations and observe basic human safety
I wonder if the cars detect a flat or if they keep driving with one, or more…
They surely detect flats, all modern cars are filled with sensors and do that. The question is more how many flats do they need to detect before calling for help.
Respecting the property of waymo is too high a bar.
Now tell them how cyclists are technically entitled to the entire lane, but how that actually plays out is highly dynamic and relies on communication
