• fuzzzerd@programming.dev
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    15 hours ago

    I’m not saying the robot is “right”, but the number of people crusing around with their high beams on as a matter of corse, is as they saying goes, too damn high. So I can absolutely believe that a vehicle’s high beams limited its “vision” because that regularly happens to me driving and as a pedestrian.

    Now if the robot fled the scene that’s a completely different issue for which it’s operators are responsible.

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      11 hours ago

      If those high beams are legal, then all that means is the robot can’t safely operate under normal/legal conditions. If it can’t operate safely, why is it allowed in public?

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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        10 hours ago

        High beams are NOT legal in the city. And they were in all likelyhood not being used in this scenario.

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          7 hours ago

          Yeah, for some reason I read high beams and just thought of the bright LEDs everyone has. Either way, I agree that it doesn’t make sense to blame high beams.

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        10 hours ago

        It’s not legal to use them in a city. If you’re blinding someone with them, it’s not legal (at least in my US state)

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      14 hours ago

      I’m not saying that you’re “wrong”, but the idea of giving the benefit of the doubt to a piece of technology in service of a corporation is, as the saying goes, bonkers.

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      10 hours ago

      I doubt the bus driver was using high beams in the city, there’s no point at these speeds and it’s illegal anyway.