[SystemSafety] Waymo cars coming to London

[Derek M Jones]

Peter,

> Me, I am hoping they will be successful. The automated vehicles drive slowly, deliberately and carefully and adhere to 
> all traffic restrictions. When they are in the traffic mix, it seems (and this is just a seat-of-the-pants observation, 
> not analysis) that surrounding human drivers pay more attention, not only to other traffic but also to applicable 
> regulation. There is, for example, no point in tailgating a Waymo vehicle to try to force it to speed up. It won't.

On the side streets people regularly fail to check for traffic
when crossing the road; they are not just looking at their
phones, some are reading books!

People will abuse Waymo cars in that they will take advantage of there
not being a driver who can get annoyed.  Side streets will be effectively
pedestrianized if self-driving cars become the norm.

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Derek M. Jones           Evidence-based software engineering
blog:https://shape-of-code.com