California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com)

Long-time Slashdot reader Ichijo writes: A self-driving car was slapped with a ticket after police said it got too close to a pedestrian on a San Francisco street.

The self-driving car owned by San Francisco-based Cruise was pulled over for not yielding to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Cruise says its data shows the person was far away enough from the vehicle and the car did nothing wrong.... According to data collected by Cruise, the pedestrian was 10.8 feet away from the car when, while the car was in self-driving mode, it began to continue down Harrison at 14th St."

The person in the crosswalk was not injured.

Comments

The actual cross-walk rules

[doom]

The company in this case is making up a rule about the distance from the pedestrian being critical (and asking us to trust it's assessment that the ped was 10 feet away). The actually rules have nothing to do with distance:

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/...

Respect the right-of-way of pedestrians. Always stop for any pedestrian crossing at corners or other crosswalks, even if the crosswalk is in the middle of the block, a [...] Remember, if a pedestrian makes eye contact with you, they are ready to cross the street. Yield to the pedestrian.

Can't their AI tell when someone is making eye-contact? Japanese photo-booths have been able to find human eyes for years now.

Re:Story missing important details

[Riceballsan]

I'd imagine self driving cars have to also know to pull over when the car behind them is flashing lights. Even assuming no check points, no laws being broken and police would never have reason to pull you over, they still have to pull over to get out of the way of an ambulance/police car etc....