“In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them.”

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    11 hours ago

    Trucks are loud, and if they don’t hear scraping, they’re not going to hear shouting.

    To be clear, I’m not trying to defend bad autonomous vehicles here - just pointing out that the dangers exist with any large vehicle. This is something that happens with trucks, so people should be aware.

    *Since you don’t seem to believe it’s possible, here’s a news report of an incident from 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q22sQndSjEA