Almost feels that way in SF right now. The scary part is that people are learning how to take advantage of the Waymo rule following and so I’m guessing the roads get more nutty before the tipping point where most vehicles have some level of computer-support - and in theory the traffic flow and safety show noticeable improvement. But when they decide to turn those big robots on wheels against us, watch out. Your robot-car could lock the doors and drive you to the Federal Deportation Center and you’re shit outta luck! SkyNet will have arrived :)
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how are they taking advantage?
(Advantage = driving, not financial) You can merge right in front of them, walk in front of them, turn in front of them etc… at the moment, they will always yield to something potentially risky- which means if you know how they’ll react, you can take advantage of their conservative risk-averse programming.
when the robots take over it will be the opposite 😂