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		taneq on March 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing... They already do that for speed limits - iirc Waymo cars will 'go with the flow' to a certain extent if everyone around them is speeding. Swerving out of your lane (assuming it is safe to do so) to avoid a collision seems pretty straightforward.

Piskvorrr on March 20, 2018 [–]

Which eventually gets the vehicle into conflict: Exhibit A, amongs other things going over the speed limit, oops, now someone's dead.

Piskvorrr on March 21, 2018 | [–]

Hmm, interesting. Google Street View seems to have 45 mph speed limit at that location...https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4350531,-111.941492,3a,75y,3...

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