Waymo Runs A Red Light And The Difference Between Humans And Robots

In January, an incident took place where a Waymo robotaxi incorrectly went through a red light due to an incorrect command from a remote operator, as reported by Waymo. A moped started coming through the intersection. The moped driver, presumably reacting to the Waymo, lost control, fell and slid, but did not hit the Waymo and there are no reports of injuries. There may have been minor damage to the moped.

That provokes the question of how crashes caused by robots differ from those caused by humans. Very early in the world of robocars, one would see a Venn diagram like this one:This illustrated that the goal was to get the rate of crashes caused by robocars much lower than the rate of those caused by people.

We’ve also seen crashes that baffle us, the most prominent being Cruise’s dragging of a pedestrian under the car. She went under the car because she was hit by another car, and that wasn’t Cruise’s fault, but we all imagine a diligent human would never, after running over somebody due to external factors, decide to just drive and pull over without figuring out where she went.

When a Cruise hit the back of a bus that was braking in front of it, the internal reason was very robotic, a strange bug in how it understood an articulated bus drives and where it’s going, though at the big picture level, humans hit big obvious targets all the time because they’re just not looking.

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