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Pedestrian Attacks Self-driving Car in the Mission (curbed.com)

Posted by msmash on from the not-the-onion dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Cruise AV, a self-driving car company owned by General Motors, reports that earlier this month an unidentified man in the Mission flung himself onto one of the company's autonomous vehicles while it was conducting a road test. According to a report filed with the California DMV (all companies testing self-driving cars on California public streets are required to make public reports any time an accident happens), the close encounter of the vehicular kind happened at 9:27 p.m. as the car was waiting to make a turn and "stopped at a green light in between crosswalks of Valencia Street and 16th Street, waiting for pedestrians to cross." The car's human driver says that a pedestrian then unexpectedly ran into the street against the traffic signal and "shouting....struck the left side of the Cruise AV's rear bumper and hatch with his entire body." The driver adds, "There were no injuries, but the Cruise AV sustained some damage to its rear light." No witnesses called the police.

6 of 268 comments (clear)

  1. Was it Secret? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This "mission" that they were on. Or was it Top Secret?

  2. Re:Bay Area Idiots by HornWumpus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Call them Bay Aryans (for their attitude). They love that.

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    John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
  3. Re:What? by pr0t0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You have to accept the mission before you can be told what it is.

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    I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
  4. Re:Bay Area Idiots by NicknameUnavailable · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they presume that you live in the 21st century, and in the unlikely case that you actually care about exactly where that is, you have tools available at your fingertips.

    Nah, SF is the world's largest open-air insane asylum. Most of them aren't aware other things exist.

  5. Re:ok..what did the car DO? by swell · · Score: 4, Funny

    "how did the car react?"

    The car is in treatment. Due to patient confidentiality, no official statement was available. Informed sources claim that it is in a severely depressed state but expected to recover.

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    ...omphaloskepsis often...
  6. Re:ok..what did the car DO? by swell · · Score: 5, Funny

    Caution:

    Never anthropomorphize smart cars. They hate it when you do that!

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    ...omphaloskepsis often...