Don't Worry About Honking At That Self Driving Car, It Can't Hear You

As auto accidents go, it wasn't much: Twelve minutes before noon on a cool June day, a Chevrolet Bolt was rear ended as it crawled from a stop light in downtown San Francisco.

What made this fender bender noteworthy was the Bolt's driver: a computer.

In California, where companies such as Cruise Automation Inc. and Waymo are ramping up testing of self-driving cars, human drivers keep running into them in low-speed fender benders. The run-ins highlight an emerging culture clash between humans who often treat traffic laws as guidelines and autonomous cars that refuse to roll through a stop sign or exceed the speed limit.

MDarringer - 10/10/2017 8:21:43 AM

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I'd screw with the damned thing any chance I got.

Tiberius1701A - 10/10/2017 8:46:27 AM

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"Nothing can go wrong...go wrong...go wrong..."

Tiberius1701A - 10/10/2017 8:47:48 AM

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"What that's going to lead to is a lower likelihood that the public is going to accept the technology." He says this like it is a bad thing.