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Uber says "Screw you CA, we're using our self-driving cars today!". Here's a video of one running a red light

Posted by decline (aka Decline) Dec 15 '16, 06:29

Apparently the test cars do have a 'driver' sitting in the car monitoring and able to take over if the car eff's up.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/uber-looking-into-incident-of-self-driving-car-running-a-red-light-captured-on-dashcam/ (techcrunch.com)

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Traffic Light Color Detection: FF6600. Interpretation: Orange. Instruction: Proceed. -- nm - Car Computer Dec 15, 06:42
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- A person WAS driving. The car was not self-driving at the time. -- nm - Ender Dec 15, 06:35 3
  - Tangent: That is a weird light set up. I can't imagine having to write an algorithm to find those lights. -- nm - Ender Dec 15, 06:47
  - "Plane with auto-pilot function crashes!" -- nm - Reagen Dec 15, 06:37
  - well, uber claims the driver was in control of the vehicle. The car hasn't made a statement yet -- nm - decline Dec 15, 06:36
- oh, legal query! Say a self-driving car (uber or otherwise) runs a red light, hits another care and hurts or kills the drive. - ty97 Dec 15, 06:34 4
  - [deleted] 3
    - I was thinking more from a negligence angle (as opposed to intentional) -- (edited) - ty97 Dec 15, 06:54 2
      - Nobody knows how these liability issues are going to work in practice yet. -- nm - Roger More Dec 15, 07:05
      - [deleted]
- nope, never. -- nm - decline Dec 15, 06:33

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