#Driverless cars blocked an #ambulance's path, contributing to the #death of a #patient
#AVs #SF #SanFrancisco #cars #transport
https://sfba.social/@mikec415/110992831958407757
mikec415@sfba.social - SF Fire Department Now Says Two Cruise Cars Blocked First Responders at Scene of Crash, Contributing to Victim's Death https://sfist.com/2023/09/01/sf-fire-department-now-says-two-cruise-cars-blocked-first-responders/

#Cars #RoadSafety #AVs #SelfDrivingCars: "A recent tweet from Matt Farah got the Jalopnik staff thinking about this. A system that’s 99.9-percent reliable sounds nearly perfect, but in reality, that 0.1-percent error rate is enormous.

So how good does a fully autonomous vehicle need to be in order to be safer than a human driver? As Jalopnik’s resident mathematician, figuring this out fell to me — and to data pulled from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

According to NHTSA, Americans drove 2,903,622,000,000 miles in 2021. That’s nearly three trillion miles, many of which were likely the sort of boring, uneventful highway driving where current Level 2 driver-assistance systems excel. American human drivers crashed 5,250,837 times in 2021 — once every 552,983 miles traveled.

Here’s how the numbers break down for human drivers in America:"

https://jalopnik.com/self-driving-car-vs-human-99-percent-safe-crash-data-1850170268

#California #SanFrancisco #DriverlessCars #Cruise #Waymo #AVs: "For the time being, San Francisco residents are in suspense. Cruise’s and Waymo’s driverless cars will compete with medallion taxis and Uber and Lyft. They will likely contribute to congestion, and continue to have near-misses and close calls with cyclists, pedestrians, and other vehicles. To date, there have been about five hundred driverless cars in San Francisco, and they already feel ubiquitous; it’s easy to imagine more of them scrolling up and down the city’s streets. At around eleven o’clock on the night after the C.P.U.C. vote, videos of a traffic jam in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood began circulating on X, the social-media platform formerly known as Twitter. North Beach is an older neighborhood with many narrow one-way streets, often crowded with people visiting restaurants, bars, and strip clubs. The videos showed at least six driverless Cruise cars stalled at an intersection, creating a cluttered, chaotic snarl. The delays, a spokesperson later explained on X, were caused by a wireless-connectivity issue, created by Outside Lands, a large music festival that was happening on the other side of the city. After fifteen minutes, the cars re-started. (The San Francisco Examiner later reported that the jam was actually caused by a pedestrian who intentionally interfered with one of Cruise’s robo-taxis.) On Thursday night, a driverless Cruise car, carrying a passenger, collided with a fire truck. “One of our cars entered the intersection on a green light and was struck by an emergency vehicle that appeared to be en route to an emergency scene,” a statement from Cruise, posted to the company’s corporate X account, read, raising the possibility that the A.V. did not yield to the emergency vehicle, as a human driver likely would have. “We are investigating to better understand our AVs performance, and will be in touch with the City of San Francisco about the event.”"
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/robo-taxis-are-legal-now

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/technology/cruise-crash-driverless-car-san-francisco.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #AVs #Cruise.#CPUC

RT @sarahbjones: A little-discussed aspect of #AVs is the massive amount of emissions generated by computer control.

I mean seriously, what are we doing to ourselves here?

https://news.mit.edu/2023/autonomous-vehicles-carbon-emissions-0113

Latest driverless #car idiocy
#AVs
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-12/cruise-robotaxis-come-to-a-standstill

#NHLVideos: Ugly or Pretty?: MacKinnon’s First NHL Goal https://www.rawchili.com/3012972/

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https://www.lovenhl.com/915970/ Where NHL Dreams Begin | Peak Access #2023 #2023Avalanche #Avalanche #AvalancheHighlights #Avs #BehindTheScenes #CentralDivision #ColbyAmbrosio #Colorado #ColoradoAvalanche #Denver #DevCampPeakAccess #DevelopmentCamp #documentary #GianniFairbrother #highlights #hockey #InsideTheNHL #JasonPolin #NationalHockeyLeague #NHL #NhlDocumentarySeries #NhlHighlights #PeakAccess #PeakAccessAvalanche #SamMalisnki #WesternConference #WhereNHLDreamsBegin #WhereNHLDreamsBegin|PeakAccess

Legendaarisia Alivaltiosihteerin radiosketsejä:

Bändikoulu: Miten hajoitamme hotellihuoneen?

#AVS

https://www.lovenhl.com/909436/ Bernie Goes Bouncing!!! | Bernie’s Summer of Fun #Avalanche #Avs #Bernie #BernieGoesBouncing #BernieGoesBouncing!!!|Bernie'sSummerOfFun #BernieGoesToBounceEmpire #Bernie'sSummerOfFun #Bernies #bounce #BounceEmpire #BounceHouse #bouncing #CentralDivision #Colorado #ColoradoAvalanche #Denver #empire #Ep1 #Episode1 #fun #GoesBouncing #hockey #mascot #NationalHockeyLeague #NHL #of #summer #SummerOfFun #ThingsToDoInColorado #WesternConference

#happybirthday to #nyislanders great Bryan Trottier who turns 67 today. The leader of the #teams that won 4 consecutive #stanleycup #championships in the early-mid 1980s, he remains a fan favorite and is one of the #greatest players in #nhl #history. Trottier went on to win 2 more cups with the #penguins and another as an assistant #coach with the #avs. #hockey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Trottier

#SiliconValley #BigTech #Transportation #Mobility #AVs #DriverlessCars #Surveillance: "Today, there are some driverless cars roaming the streets of a few cities around the country, but, at least in San Francisco, they’re getting plenty of bad reviews. Vehicles from companies like Waymo and Cruise have a reputation for blocking traffic and getting in the way of emergency vehicles, to the point that local officials want them out of the city altogether. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s Boring Company, which was spun off from SpaceX in 2018, made some big promises of its own, but has thus far built little more than an amusement ride in Las Vegas. Uber scrapped its plans for networks of flying cars, and startups devoted to the Hyperloop, a proposed method of high-speed intercity transport, are dropping dead as higher interest rates choke off their access to capital—investors know they’ll never deliver.

Tech billionaires don’t have a great track record when it comes to fixing our transportation system—but we keep giving them second chances. For 15 years, we’ve waited for Silicon Valley to solve the problems on our roads, and it’s continually failed to deliver. Instead, tech companies have kept us trapped in our cars by distracting us from investments in improved transit and other transport options. Now, we’re letting them load our vehicles with new technologies so they can get their own cut of the profits made from our dependence on automobiles—by scraping our data, forcing subscriptions into our cars, and using drivers as guinea pigs to test new tech." https://newrepublic.com/article/174089/big-tech-watching-drive

#SelfDrivingCars #RoboTaxis #AVs #AI: "Years after the industry first promised self-driving cars were supposed to arrive, some boosters point to the trials happening in San Francisco as proof we’re finally on the cusp of the driverless revolution. But there’s plenty of reason to believe companies are once again overpromising on what they can deliver. The robotaxis are constantly blocking transit and emergency vehicles, and have become a new form of ubiquitous surveillance to aid the police department.

In the viral video, Safe Street Rebel advises opponents of the autonomous vehicles (AVs) to start placing the city’s many orange traffic cones on their hoods to disable them. It’s a protest, but it’s also a way to draw attention to an important decision by the state regulator on whether to significantly expand robotaxi services that was due to be made on July 13, but has now been delayed until August 10. The activist group says the delay is “a sign that our campaign is working.”

To understand more about what’s happening in San Francisco, I spoke with an anonymous activist from Safe Street Rebel. The original video has been removed from TikTok, but you can watch it on Instagram or Twitter."

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/stopping-robotaxis-with-traffic-cones

https://www.lovenhl.com/896478/ Jonathan Drouin and Miles Wood Media Availability #Avalanche #Avs #CentralDivision #Colorado #ColoradoAvalanche #Denver #hockey #NationalHockeyLeague #NHL #WesternConference

https://www.lovenhl.com/893521/ Avs fans should be hyped for Mikhail Gulyayev | Avalanche Review #1st #Avalanche #Avs #CentralDivision #Colorado #ColoradoAvalanche #ColoradoSports #Denver #DenverSports #DenverSportsNews #DNVR #Draft #first #Gulyayev #mhl #Mikhail #NHL #Omsk #pick #Round #sports #WesternConference

https://www.lovenhl.com/890568/ [Baugh] Colorado sense pick No. 37 in this week’s draft to Tampa Bay, I’m told, in exchange for Ross Colton. The #Avs hold on to both their first-round picks. #CentralDivision #ColoradoAvalanche #WesternConference

Nee article from me @fastcompany on complex automation in cities and how we're (not) coping: https://www.fastcompany.com/90905018/our-cities-are-becoming-increasingly-automated-and-were-not-equipped-for-the-change #automation #AI #smartcities #avs #autonomousvehicles

HEY LINESMAN, GIVE YER BALLS A TUG, YA TITFUCKER! MY BROTHER'S DOG CAN SEE THOSE TWO PENALTIES YOU DIDN'T CALL! THIS GAME SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST BEEN TIED

#Avs #Kraken

#Kraken #Avs game 7 tonight. Series is tied at 3. #NHLMastodon #StanleyCupPlayoffs