More than 20 sometimes dangerous attacks in two years: Some residents of Chandler in the US state of Arizona are against the tests of autonomously driving cars in your city. Some have cars from Waymo damaged and assaulted inmates.
January 2, 2019, 1:08 pm,
Werner Pluta
Autonomously driving Chrysler Pacifica from Waymo: several times trying to push the vehicles off the road
(Image: Waymo)
Randale against Waymo: In the US state of Arizona, unknown persons have repeatedly damaged alphabet-daughter’s autonomously driving cars. In Arizona, a woman was killed last year in an autonomous car accident.
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Waymo has been testing since 2017 formerly Google’s car project, in Chandler the autonomously driving Chrysler Pacifica, For a good month, the vehicles in the suburb of Phoenix are also as taxis in use,
Obviously, not all residents agree with the test: there have been at least 21 attacks on the vehicles, reports the daily New York Times, The most harmless ones were loud verbal expressions of unhappiness. But there were also vandalism and even violent attacks. Passersby threw stones at the cars or slashed tires.
In other cases, vehicles and security personnel were threatened – one with a plastic pipe, the other with a pistol. Some security drivers were also physically assaulted. A motorist has tried several times to crowd the Waymo vehicles off the road. He sat down in front of the Waymo car, braked abruptly, forcing it to an emergency stop. He justified his actions against Waymo with the fact that his son had almost been hit by such a car.
On March 18, 2018 occurred in Tempe, a neighboring town of Phoenix, a fatal accident with an autonomous driving car from Uber, The Volvo caught a pedestrian crossing a street in the dark and fatally injured her. The caretaker, who drove for safety in the car, according to a video released by the police distracted in the moment,
Douglas Rushkoff, media theorist at the City University of New York and author of the book Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, understands the attacks: He compares the autonomous vehicles with strikebreakers. “It’s getting the impression that the big corporations working on driverless technologies are not trying our best,” he told the New York Times.
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