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

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.

Comments

Bay Area Idiots

[Anonymous Coward]

You can tell when someone's from the Bay Area because they're so self-important that they describe local locations to the world with no context to explain for people not from the area.

Re:Bay Area Idiots

[cascadingstylesheet]

But people are so jealous of California that they pretend not to know what the Mission District is.

The really funny part is that you think they are pretending.

Re:What?

[known_coward_69]

most likely they lied to the cops about being hit by the car to sue for a big insurance payout

geeze, thanks anonymous pedestrian

[Thud457]

New data point - people are assholes.

Do you want SKYNET? Because that's how you get SKYNET right there.

San Francisco Shithole

[SuperKendall]

I dare any person who has ever been to, or lived in SF to disagree with me.

And I mean it literally as that is where multiple times I have seen someone taking a dump *against a wall*.

Re:San Francisco Shithole

[swillden]

Good economy, good jobs, art, restaurants, beach, good transit system, best tacos in the world, fog, not one but two of the best bridges in the country, bison, Hunky Jesus, BYOBW, a little public nudity now and again, music scene, comedy scene, donut scene ... I could go on.

All better things that what you hay-bailn', pickup drivin' yahoos in the flyover states consider culture.

You're trolling but this is fun, and I'm waiting for a build to finish, so I'll bite.

My flyover state has fresh air, incredible scenery, lots of great skiing, hiking, rock climbing, fishing, hunting... and open space, not crammed cheek by jowl full of people. Plus low cost of living and a sense of community that is all but impossible to find in SF. So, different strokes, I guess. I can't figure out why anyone would want to live in a big city. It's fun to visit now and again, especially for the art (great restaurants I can get closer to home).

Oh, and a rusty old pickup has a much better route schedule than the best public transit system ever created. It goes exactly where you want to go, exactly when you want to go, and can carry a lot of stuff. Not only does it not require rails, in a pinch it doesn't even need a road.

ok..what did the car DO?

[Danathar]

What I want to know is how did the car react? What did it do? Obviously it's not going to drive over a pedestrian, but from a purely autonomous car programming perspective I'd like to know how the car reacted to it (or not)