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Autonomous Waymo car runs over dog in San Francisco
Accepted submission by Freeman
at 2023-06-09 15:51:53
from the begun the fido and robots wars they have dept.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/autonomous-waymo-car-runs-over-dog-in-san-francisco/ [arstechnica.com]
One of Alphabet's Waymo autonomous cars has killed a pet dog. TechCrunch [techcrunch.com] spotted the public report [ca.gov] of the incident, which says one of the Waymo Jaguar I-Pace cars ran over a dog in San Francisco while in autonomous mode with a safety driver behind the wheel.
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The incident is Waymo's first reported fatality.
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