Zoox, a self-driving car company owned by Amazon, is deploying robot taxis without steering wheels, driver seats or drivers. But like all other self-driving cars, they still need help from humans.
The end of the article when it talks about the fire trucks that the car failed to yield to; the article claimed it was because they were yellow instead of red. What about cop cars that are white, black, blue? How about ambulances? This seems super shady behavior to me.
The whole point of unmarked police cars is you can’t tell they’re a police car until the lights come on.
Also, why wouldn’t an unmarked fire truck be useful? It would still function as a fire truck, and the lights would identify it as such. This is a weird take.
I can’t speak about these cars, but I know that Waymo’s cars identify the siren/lights to determine the presence of emergency vehicles. Because without the lights and siren, there’s no emergency and no need to yield, so they get treated like any other vehicle on the road.
Not sure why Zoox is identifying based on body color. Surely they know paint exists?
The end of the article when it talks about the fire trucks that the car failed to yield to; the article claimed it was because they were yellow instead of red. What about cop cars that are white, black, blue? How about ambulances? This seems super shady behavior to me.
There’s also unmarked emergency vehicles.
If an emergency vehicle is unmarked then it’s probably not actually useful in an emergency, is it.
A firetruck that you can’t tell is a firetruck probably isn’t helpful at fighting fires.
The whole point of unmarked police cars is you can’t tell they’re a police car until the lights come on.
Also, why wouldn’t an unmarked fire truck be useful? It would still function as a fire truck, and the lights would identify it as such. This is a weird take.
I can’t speak about these cars, but I know that Waymo’s cars identify the siren/lights to determine the presence of emergency vehicles. Because without the lights and siren, there’s no emergency and no need to yield, so they get treated like any other vehicle on the road.
Not sure why Zoox is identifying based on body color. Surely they know paint exists?