It is an offense in Japan to not stop if someone is waiting before entering the crosswalk (and technically to progress until they are fully off the entire street, though I've had assholes whip around me for not breaking the law). People do get ticketed for it (though not enough, honestly). I wonder what they would do here.

I read RoboTaxis as RobotAxis and wondered what a mechanical version of the losers of WW2 had to do with cars

Where can I buy a traffic cone shaped rock?

the funniest thing to me, is that this probably isn't even the fault of AI, this is probably the fault of software developers too lazy to actually write any semi decent code that would do a good job of (not) being a nuisance.

Looks like the revisionist history podcast might need to revise thier episode about waymo... 😅

Anything to keep the car companies stock price up

Is this site being weird or am I tripping, because I just came in here, and there was an on point comment about being a parent and wiping pee being a part of life, and ended with a solid joke, but, I come back in here and it’s gone with no deleted or anything. It was good and on point enough that I returned to reply…. What is happening? I’m too tired for this confusion!

Are the developers Swedish?

Here we go again, blaming robots for doing the same thing humans do. Only at least the robots don't flip you off when they try to run you over.