Driverless car appears to flee the scene after being pulled over by cops:
A video showing a driverless car being stopped by the police and then attempting to drive away went viral over the weekend. San Francisco police stopped one of Cruise's autonomous Chevrolet Bolt EVs, likely because the car's headlights were not on despite it being night. In the video, first posted to Instagram on April 2, an officer can be heard saying, "There's nobody in it."
But a few seconds later, after the officer walks back to his police car, the autonomous vehicle—perhaps deciding that the traffic stop was over—tries to drive away before pulling over to a stop a few hundred feet away.
Cruise says that the car wasn't trying to make a run for it. The vehicle first yielded to the police vehicle, then pulled over to a safe spot for the actual traffic stop, the company says. One of the police officers contacted Cruise to inform it of the situation, and the driverless car did not receive a ticket. Cruise says it has fixed whatever caused the car to drive without its headlights at night.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Saturday April 16 2022, @10:38PM
Not a good advertising feature for an automobile
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 5, Funny) by MIRV888 on Saturday April 16 2022, @10:52PM
Sounds like a design feature.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 16 2022, @11:36PM (8 children)
Young black male sitting in the self driving car. The results will depend on the city of course. If he doesn't die in a fusillade of bullets, he's sho 'nuff goin to jail! You can shuffle around the blackness - young male all alone, young male with a bevy of offspring, young male with a girl, young female alone, young female with children. You can amuse yourself with the parameters for awhile, I imagine.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 16 2022, @11:44PM (7 children)
Can anyone translate that?
I don't speak white supremacist gun-toting crazy.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @12:05AM (1 child)
No, but you sure speak Fuckwit. Fluently.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @12:11AM
Okay, Redneck1776.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @12:14AM
Do you speak Philando Castille? That was an open and shut case of 'Nigga wid a gun! BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG! BANG! BANG!'
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @12:34AM (1 child)
I think he's talking about a Runaway car.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @01:59AM
Runaway may be something of a Racist 3.0 trailblazer, but he is a trucker, not a car-er, and certainly not a environmentally responsible carer. So, I think his point was, Runaway is still racist after all these years.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 17 2022, @05:25PM (1 child)
He's trying to pretend he doesn't actually own a white bedsheet with two holes in it by virtue-signalling -- very badly -- about how the police tend to kill black people, and specifically young black men, for no reason and much too often.
This is a little like an axe trying to tell the forest it's one of them because it has a wooden handle.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 20 2022, @10:11AM
Imagine what it was like as a child going to that 'Ghost Cosplay bonfire' in the forest, only to realize when you showed up in your bedsheet that everyone else had these cool two piece outfits and were called dragons and stuff. What impressionable youth wouldn't idolize them until he figured out better!
Now being 60-someodd years old, maybe he's catching on ^.^
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Snotnose on Sunday April 17 2022, @12:14AM (5 children)
Neither hurt anyone, nor went viral.
DNRTA, but sounds like there was nobody behind the wheel. In which case:
1) Should there have been? If so, that fucker should be totally fucked.
2) If not, dafuq? Are we really allowing "self driving" cars on the roads without some minimum wage slave behind the wheel?
I just passed a drug test. My dealer has some explaining to do.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @12:21AM
> Are we really allowing "self driving" cars on the roads without some minimum wage slave behind the wheel?
Yes, in some states and in some geo-fenced areas. For example, Google is operating their self driving taxis in the Phoenix area with no safety drivers, but only in good weather.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @03:21AM (3 children)
In big leftist run cities, the new Science is worth much more than the people.
In Frisco, city administrators feel all warm and fuzzy that they allowed Cruise to collect data, but if a pedestrian gets hurt, it's just one pooper less.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday April 17 2022, @05:15AM (2 children)
How many pedestrians actually got hurt by self-driving cars?
Any evidence of a pedestrian having been killed by a self-driving car?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @05:29AM (1 child)
Yes to both. Elaine Herzberg. Since I'm guessing you read the New York Times, here's a link to an article there: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-driverless-fatality.html [nytimes.com]
(Score: 3, Touché) by FatPhil on Monday April 18 2022, @01:53PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 5, Interesting) by zafiro17 on Sunday April 17 2022, @01:13AM (9 children)
We're not far away from robot traffic stops, in which software and algorithms decide to pull you over based on perceived infractions. Then you've got robot cops stopping robot cars for the purpose of applying human rules to ... something. Not good.
This is not the utopia we were promised. In fact, it might not exist.
Software designers will implement algorithms that automatically slow driverless vehicles under certain conditions etc. ...bugs in the software will permit exploitation of the algorithms etc ...
Not sure if we're headed toward Bladerunner or Hunger Games in the next hundred years. Maybe Cormac McCarthy's The Road. In any case, time for robot cars to smarten up.
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey
(Score: 2) by Barenflimski on Sunday April 17 2022, @01:18AM (3 children)
I'm curious. What was the utopia we were promised?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Sunday April 17 2022, @01:38AM
Maybe https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrystalSpiresAndTogas [tvtropes.org]
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @02:01AM
The one with video phone, flying cars, and no aristarchus. You know, the Jetsons!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @02:34AM
Well, there was that one where everyone had a crystal implanted in their palms that would start blinking when they turned 30. Sounded like a great idea to me about 40 years ago. I'm less enthusiastic about that idea nowadays.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Immerman on Sunday April 17 2022, @03:20AM (4 children)
If someone sold you a story of technological Utopia, demand your money back. We've already had the technology to provide a decent stab at it for at least a century, yet have made no attempt to actually deliver. The problems remaining are social, and only social reform has any chance of delivering.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Sunday April 17 2022, @08:26AM (3 children)
I don't need to pay for stories and promises of technological Utopia, people are stuffing them down my throat all the time. Musk's Mars colony for example.
(Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Sunday April 17 2022, @03:04PM (2 children)
Good example. I fully expect Musk's stupid Mars Colony to be a billionaire's invite-only club. Starting a new society without all the hassle and struggle of poor people. Except wait, turns out we need poor people to build our structures and infrastructure. Haven't puzzled out the details of that one yet.
Huxley's Brave New World always seemed a very plausible reality, though over the past few years the Orwell vision has been somewhat present as well.
Very depressing to see billionaires focused not on fixing problems but on blasting off and avoiding them entirely. I fully hope to be on the launchpad to sabotage their shit and watch their phallic spaceships combust on liftoff.
Software developers have an important role to play in the future we are building. The fact that so many seem to be focused primarily on personal enrichment doesn't fill me with hope. And don't even get me started on Bitcoin.
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 17 2022, @03:14PM
No one is going to avoid societal problems, no matter how fast or how far they run. The only way to cure human problems, is to eliminate humans. All those utopian dreams are doomed to failure. The moment two or more people enter the picture, the dream is dead. If you want to know how the future will be, read history. Every crime, every atrocity, that man has ever committed will be repeated again in the future, likely on even grander scales.
Watch the Star Wars movies again. Key in on the 'disturbance in the force'.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday April 18 2022, @02:00PM
Dear god, yes please. All of them, preferably.
> I fully hope to be on the launchpad to sabotage their shit and watch their phallic spaceships combust on liftoff.
Why grant them a quick death? Surely knowing that eventually they'll be freezing, gasping for air, eating each other, or falling apart from radiation sickness is better for keeping the schadenfreud lobe well-stimulated?
> And don't even get me started on Bitcoin.
I wasted a significant portion of my Easter doomscrolling down this list of entirely predictable stories: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Sunday April 17 2022, @03:53AM (4 children)
I envision that next time it will take a few dozen cops shooting at the car, damaging it bit by bit, yet it keeps plowing forward...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @06:27AM
Easy fix for that. Pass a law that all self-driving cars must be painted white.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Sunday April 17 2022, @02:59PM
Nah, not unless it's a black car. *rimshot*
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Thursday April 21 2022, @12:59AM (1 child)
If it's a driverless car they can eliminate passenger safety features, seats, comfort features, etc. The weight saved can be used to armor essential systems, making them relatively unstoppable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 26 2022, @05:42AM
I shall name my driverless car ... "Christine".