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Comment by mcpackieh | Hacker News Reader

> I have no idea what an actual solution would be though.

Take these robocars off the roads until they're read to respond to emergency vehicles properly.

In general, we should probably get all cars off the road until we can guarantee that they won't get into accidents. Once we have a 100% guarantee that no human lives are lost and no environmental harm can occur, we can slowly introduce one or two cars and see what happens. Perhaps the people who drive these cars should be highly trained professional drivers.

Then we can slowly introduce one or two amateur drivers and see if they cause any harm when going about their daily lives.

After we study the effects for a few decades we should be able to safely allow a few more people to drive cars on the road.

There is system in place for dealing with human drivers who misbehave in traffic - if it doesn't kill them, we can at least throw them in jail to think about what they've done.

Perhaps if robotaxi company executives, employees and scientists were liable when their cars messed up, they might be a bit less cavalier about letting them screw up traffic.

No one gets killed for screwing up traffic haha. And where Cruise operates, no one goes to jail for screwing up traffic. What does happen is people kill humans, and no amount of jailing the killers brings anyone back.

So let's make human driven cars safe before we let them on the road. When AVs kill as many people as human driven cars, we can switch.

That reliably solves every conceivable situation where these vehicles might block or impede emergency responders.

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