Self Driving - Weird Edge Cases
Millions of kilometers have been driven by prototype self driving systems from multiple companies at varying degrees of maturity, often with a human sitting behind the wheel able to intervene if needed. In a few places actual self driving cars are in use, like Waymo in San Francisco and some other cities. Most though are still in some form of development and approval. One standout from these is the weird edge cases that still seem to arise, cases the software somehow didn't see or respond to safely or aty least as might be expected. I've been posting an occasional thread on BlueSky for these as an when I spot them - this is a hook into that thread.
As always with anecdotes:
- anecdotes are not data. They're an eyebrow raising insight into things, but aren't balanced, don't tell a safety story in themselves for the safety of things.
- They also don't have any respect for the sheer idiocy us humans exhibit on a daily basis - its not like we're infallible.
Anyway, at least be amused, amazed, or scared, by some of them.