Self-driving cars have flooded San Francisco's streets, and not everyone is happy. Street activists have been using a low-tech solution to incapacitate the vehicles.
Those incidents include driving through yellow emergency tape, blocking firehouse driveways,Autonomous vehicles are programmed to be overly conservativestudied why driverless cars may be acting this way
"The software can make the autonomous vehicle behave as conservatively as possible because a safety violation would be very serious," Wan says."But this may lead to concerns on the other side, like in some cases, even though it's safe it will fail to drive normally." "The traffic cone protest is an example of how things in the real world can really confound machines, even ones as sophisticated and finely tuned as this,"."It's a reminder that in this very high-tech world, the most low-tech things can literally put a wrench in the machine."
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