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A stalled Cruise robotaxi blocked a San Francisco ambulance from getting a pedestrian hit by a vehicle to the hospital in an Aug. 14 incident, according to first responder accounts. The patient later died of their injuries.
“The patient was packaged for transport with life-threatening injuries, but we were unable to leave the scene initially due to the Cruise vehicles not moving,” the San Francisco Fire Department report, first reported by Forbes, reads. “The fact that Cruise autonomous vehicles continue to block ingress and egress to critical 911 calls is unacceptable.”
Evidence here show that ambulance - - could have and should have - - passed to the right.
Yet, the (hypothetical) question remains :
if to save a life I would (no doubt) gently push that stupid car out of the way. Wouldn’t you ?
Edit : to @EdibleFriend
@EdibleFriend
Dear lemmy user,
Something went wrong in the other tread where you stated that pushing a light car with an ambulance could break the ambulance while I was of the opinion that since the ambulance is a truck and Heavy it would go right and anyway the driver of the ambulance should be able to judge if those vehicles reacts in the right way.
Maybe you want to continue our discussion about it ?
Sure, and maybe next time they won’t be able to go around. What then?
The fact that this could and probably will happen again and again is enough to make these cars entirely indefensible. The techbro cunts experimenting on the unconsenting public with this broken technology should be charged with vehicular manslaughter for every death caused by their driverless cars.
I agree that I did not address that important and bigger issue about robo taxi in general.
Even worse, ai poses great problems in other domains.