Self- Driving Cars Attacked In Arizona

[appalachiablue]

Dec. 21, '18, NBC News, (CHANDLER, AZ)- The introduction of Google's Waymo self-driving cars in the test city of Chandler, AZ has sparked a new kind road rage: human versus robot. In the past 2 years, there have been at least 21 instances documented by local police involving people harassing Waymo vehicles in the Phoenix suburb of 240,000.
Those instances include a man waving a pistol at a Waymo vehicle as it passed his driveway, tires slashed while idling in traffic, thrown rocks, and a Jeep that ran a Waymo car off the road 6 times. Waymo, the self-driving car division that spun out from Google X, has been in Chandler since 2016.

“I drive by them. They don’t bother me,” said Sarah Miranda. But other local residents say the cars make them uncomfortable. Kevin Ridley, a retired technical writer in Tempe prefers not to drive next to Waymo cars and does his best to avoid being stuck next to or behind one in traffic. “They scare me,” he said. “I don’t think any amount of technology can replace the human decision-making process. How many people will be hurt or killed as we learn the limitations or missed parameters of the programming for self-driving cars as they are released to the public?” https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/humans-harass-attack-self-driving-waymo-cars-n950971

[Turbineguy]

1. These people obviously haven't driven in

Florida.

[appalachiablue]

2. What's the beef on driving in Fla.?

[Turbineguy]

3. Between people

going 40 or 120 mph on the freeway, running red lights and stop signs in the city, not much I guess.

[janterry]

5. My grandfather drove in FL despite being legally blind

He just kept renewing his license. By mail.

[appalachiablue]

4. From the Old People, I see. What about areas with teen drivers?

Such menaces, how have we made it without AI vehicles. Eric Schmidt, "We're saving lives!"

https://www.inverse.com/article/16753-google-s-eric-schmidt-on-self-driving-cars-it-s-time-to-make-it-legal