http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/11/testing_of_self_driving_cars_could_begin_soon_in_boston
by end of the year ====================== rant follows LOL - kinda a rant this will happen - fire truck pulls up at bld fire - Google car sees truck parking and thinks "fine lets just roar on past" - fire fighter hops out of cab - smoosh a human would know that the firemen are getting out of the truck in a hurry - the stupid car knows nothing [I am exaggerating just a little here - any driver that just parked could hop out of the vehicle immediately - but the parker should look first before hopping out - but a FF in a hurry might not] or fire truck pulls out of station and blows siren - Google car stupidly thinks - trucks dont come out of blds - "fine lets just roar past" - smoosh actually - that is a good question - lets say we are Huntington Ave passing Engine 37 House - it is a 2 lane roadway going Eastbound - you could have trolleys approaching on the left from front and back - and you could have a fire truck pulling out into the right lane - what is the stupid car going to do? the difference between the fire truck pulling out into the right lane and pulling out into the left lane can be a matter of just 1 foot - is the dumb car going to slam on the brakes or try to beat the fire truck? the fire truck thinks he has the right of way - the dumb car thinks that he has the right of way - the dumb car has no idea if the fire truck is going to pull into the right lane or the left lane - if the left lane is clear ahead, a human driver would assume that the fire truck is going to take the left lane - will the dumb car know that? can the dumb car detect a siren or flashing lights? (I probably asked that before) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
