Playing devil’s advocate, if I somehow didn’t know robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles were a thing, I might think it was a car used for Google Street view or some sort of GIS mapping
Or if I were a paranoid cop I might think they have a bomb strapped to their roof, or cell phone jammers or some other crazy conspiracy bullshit.
I would expect by this point after Waymo has been on the road for 7 years… Police should know what the fuck one looks like, especially with the dozen or so very obvious LIDAR sensors all over the thing. And especially since Waymo only operates in a handful of places under special authorization by the State DOT, the police should know what they look like by now, they are not new.
We need to stop giving police the benefit of the doubt for their ignorance. Ignorance of the law isn’t an excuse for regular people, why should we accept that ignorance and poor training is fine for the police?
True, they could be outside of their jurisdiction or new. If it were a bomb I wouldn’t want to stop it though, call for backup, let’s see a helicopter and a SWAT/Bomb squad show up to stop a Waymo, lol… That new guy would never live it down.
Playing devil’s advocate, if I somehow didn’t know robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles were a thing, I might think it was a car used for Google Street view or some sort of GIS mapping
Or if I were a paranoid cop I might think they have a bomb strapped to their roof, or cell phone jammers or some other crazy conspiracy bullshit.
I would expect by this point after Waymo has been on the road for 7 years… Police should know what the fuck one looks like, especially with the dozen or so very obvious LIDAR sensors all over the thing. And especially since Waymo only operates in a handful of places under special authorization by the State DOT, the police should know what they look like by now, they are not new.
We need to stop giving police the benefit of the doubt for their ignorance. Ignorance of the law isn’t an excuse for regular people, why should we accept that ignorance and poor training is fine for the police?
True, they could be outside of their jurisdiction or new. If it were a bomb I wouldn’t want to stop it though, call for backup, let’s see a helicopter and a SWAT/Bomb squad show up to stop a Waymo, lol… That new guy would never live it down.