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

Story missing important details

[93 Escort Wagon]

Specifically: How does a cop pull over a self-driving car? I mean, exactly how does that happen logistically?

10.8 feet

[b0s0z0ku]

10.8 feet is one second away at 7 mph. Too damn close -- company deserves a ticket.

Re:Cops gotta make that ticket quota!

[Anonymous Coward]

I could make that same argument for a car. I just stupid to be a blind rule-following robot and stop at every red light when you are moving 5-10 mph and can plainly see no cross traffic.

The issue most of us have with cyclists is that there is a significant number of them that really want maximum penalties applied to cars, but don't want the rules to apply to them at all.

Re: Cops gotta make that ticket quota!

[chaboud]

Cyclists in San Francisco regularly run four way stops, causing panic braking, and I had to swerve to avoid a trio riding the wrong way on a divided street (Dolores) on Thursday.

San Francisco cyclists regularly put the burden for their survival on other users of the road (pedestrians, drivers, other cyclists). There absolutely should be more ticketed cyclists in San Francisco, but it should not be driven by a revenue motive.

I say this as a cyclist, skater, pedestrian, and driver.