A third of San Francisco lost power over the weekend, causing traffic chaos.
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just stopping is not that bad of an outcome if I’m being honest. Pulling over would be better.
I’ve watched Seattle drivers do worse in a power outage so just stopping was probably safer. The other side of the coin is that everyone gets trapped on the road during an outage as stopped cars block everything.
How hard is it to automate treating a non-working traffic light as a stop sign?
Seriously, this is one if the few things I expected autonomous driving to do better than humans.
“we don’t engineer for edge cases”
