Person dies after 2 driverless cars block ambulance on way to hospital

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Person dies after 2 driverless cars block ambulance on way to hospital
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The ambulance apparently chose not to pass on the right in the lanes that were moving because of policy or something like that. I know where I live stopping where you are at is what you are supposed to do, so this one really seem slide it might be misleading anti self driving sensationalism.

It still has a long way to go, but stopping for emergency vehicles really sounds like it was working as designed to follow the laws.

I noted that too. Sounds like corporate bullshit.

"Well, another lanes was moving so it could have gone around, also, if the patient had just taken an med flight helicopter this wouldn't have happened."

Like so what another lane is moving. Would the ambo have to back up and do a K turn to get around the glitched car?

Be interesting to see exactly what the traffic patterns looked like. There’s the set of driving regulations that generally say we should make way for emergency vehicles, but not if it requires ignoring another regulation. For example, if you’re stopped at a red light and an emergency vehicle approaches from behind, law says you wait for the light to turn green, then proceed when safe. Real drivers will run that light, hop a curb, make an illegal u-turn, etc. to make space, and nobodies going to get ticket for that, but it they are technically still violations.

I also think the comparison shouldn’t necessarily be against a typical driver, but a novice one, who doesn’t always respond correctly to an uncommon situation.

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