My husband had to take his CA drivers test yesterday (yay new immigrant) and he pointed out something re: Uber
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The laws say you can't cross a solid single white line. They also say you must merge into a bike lane before a right turn.
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However, as both a cyclist and a driver, he has noticed many bike lanes have solid white lines right up to the intersection
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So if I'm a very rule-abiding algorithm, which rule do I prioritize? The white line rule or the bike lane before turn rule?
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Don't get me wrong, fuck Uber's flouting of regulations and the CA DMV's requests. But our own inconsistency in driving laws may be making
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self-driving technology try to solve problems that even humans don't consistently solve the same way. And that sucks.
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So yeah. Humans need to get their infrastructure together before we can live in the future.
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I wonder what the scene is like in Switzerland (where I would expect such rules to be regularized)
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