The video is wild - Waymo support apparently struggles to remotely control the car.
otherwise they should simply be banned
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42117343
From @simonw back then,
>Yes, there's a "pullover now" button on the dashboard at all times.
Well, doesn't seem to be the case here.
According to his spokesperson, he wasn't aware of it.
Imagine letting a passenger in a car use the e-brake at any time.
It's a tricky problem.
Alright, I'm imagining. Seems extremely sensible, especially in an AI-operated vehicle.
Much of the world (the US being an outlier) puts passenger-facing emergency breaks in every carriage of passenger trains.
Clearly autonomous vehicles need e-stops, like all automated machines.
Maybe driverless cars should have remained a relic of 80s Schwarzenegger movies.
I'm unfamiliar - we have these in train cars, did the architects behind driverless techshit not think it was necessary?
There should be an emergency "pull over and stop gracefully" button.
So even if the vision/pathfinding believes there is nowhere to park and nowhere else to turn, it will still coast to a stop in a way that is not inherently less-safe than a more-normal car running out of gas and stalling on the road.
And yes, passengers should absolutely be able to bring their vehicle to an immediate stop. It's an "emergency break"! Of course you need an emergency break in an autonomous car! What exact alternative are you proposing for when you're in an AI-operated car hurtling under the chassis of a white truck that it failed to detect in snow conditions?
It seems like an incredibly obvious and basic legislative requirement for self-driving cars to have some kind of immediate manual break for emergencies. I'm kind of shocked that that apparently isn't the case now?
But GM already has this capability with OnStar. Stolen vehicles can be slowed down then stopped and and disabled remotely.