Big difference is that a human can be yelled at and told what to do, and we currently don't have a good way for someone to do that with an autonomous vehicle.
As far as I'm aware, all autonomous vehicles have manual controls that can override them. The person inside the vehicle would have to take over when an emergency responder started yelling directions.
Well, you can just ram them out of the way with your firetruck. Obviously that's not a great option either, but if the FD does that then any damages are on the robot-taxi company.
Sure, I suppose. Or just don't expand the system until there's some measure of system in place to keep the AI cars from fucking around in emergency situations.
Big difference is that a human can be yelled at and told what to do, and we currently don't have a good way for someone to do that with an autonomous vehicle.
As far as I'm aware, all autonomous vehicles have manual controls that can override them. The person inside the vehicle would have to take over when an emergency responder started yelling directions.
Some of the vehicles don't have anyone in them.
https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/waymo-cruise-fire-department-police-san-francisco/
One of the incidents in question.
Well, you can just ram them out of the way with your firetruck. Obviously that's not a great option either, but if the FD does that then any damages are on the robot-taxi company.
Sure, I suppose. Or just don't expand the system until there's some measure of system in place to keep the AI cars from fucking around in emergency situations.