[SystemSafety] Waymo cars coming to London

[Derek M Jones]

Peter,

> Do that in any town or city in Germany and you will quickly end up with a €30 or more ticket, and many of them. 
> Pedestrian red lights are to be taken seriously. Nobody has any problem with it. That doesn't mean that people don't 
> cross the road against a pedestrian red light when there is no wheeled traffic coming, but it does mean they check for 
> the presence of enforcement personnel before doing so.

The purpose of this is to train the population to follow pointless
rules.

> On the other hand, nobody anticipated that there would be professional thieves on bicycles on sidewalks snatching phones 
> out of people's hands at the rate of (in one case I read about) 40 in an hour. The reaction of the authorities to all 

I was talking to a 'security' person standing near the entrance of
a local university, and asked her what she was supposed to do if
she say a phone being snatched.  "Nothing".  She was a visual
deterrent.

How much deterrence does a middle aged woman standing wearing a
high-viz jacket project to would be phone thieves?

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Derek M. Jones           Evidence-based software engineering
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