Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Attack Of The Autonomous Autos!

Humans slapped and shouted at robot cars in two of six DMV crash reports this year

The human response to possible takeover by robot overlords is off to a troubling start. Of six crash reports involving robot cars filed in California so far this year, two involved a human approaching the car and attacking it. On Jan. 2, a Chevy Bolt EV operated by General Motors' Cruise driverless car division in San Francisco's Mission District was waiting at a green light for pedestrians to cross when a man "ran across Valencia Street against the 'do not walk' symbol, shouting, and struck the left side of the Cruise AV's rear bumper and hatch with his entire body," damaging a tail light, according to a report filed with the California Department of Motor Vehicles. No one was injured and police were not called, the report said. The car was in autonomous mode but a driver was behind the wheel, as required by current law.

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