Once again, reality shows that it is difficult for autonomous driving technology to spread in the near future.
It is not common to find autonomous vehicles in our country, much less companies that make commercial trips with a taxi service that seems to have come from the future. However, some United States cities have already granted permissions to certain companies, so that regular traffic can be added driverless vehicles Some behind the wheel. They usually go unnoticed by the population, but when an incident happensAs you can see in the attached video, this one goes viral.
Excuse me, Mr. Agent, I have not been scheduled to attend to the security forces.
He autonomous driving system for Cruise vehicles It’s really advanced and it works really well, although the reality is that in those few cases where it fails, the alarm goes off. On this occasion, according to a recent publication on Facebook, one of the cars of the North American company seems to have had some kind of problem with the signaling of the austin streets and ended up circulating around the opposite lane to the direction of circulation. The city police, by surprise, found themselves face to face with an unexpected offender.
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Judging by the incredulity of the policemen, it seems to be the first time that they have witnessed the circulation of a vehicle without a driver. The agents, oblivious to the laughter and jokes made in the vicinity of the scene, gave several laps around the car Cruise autonomous before heading back to the police vehicle, we imagine that to check the data of the car and contact those responsible for it. It seems, from what can be observed, that at that time Cruise’s car had no one in itwhich would have been helpful in this traffic problem.
It is not, as we mentioned before, the first time that a company car has been in a similar situation, especially when night falls. According to a news item published on the Foretellix website, one of the cruise carsmaking a turn and joining a new road, drove a few meters occupying the designated bicycle lane. These incidents, beyond the anecdote, continue to show how fully autonomous driving is still a pipe dream, despite the fact that electric car companies like Tesla believe they have the key.