Driverless cars to get to practice left turns along waterfront, in Fort Point

By adamg on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 8:11am

WBUR reports the city has let a Cambridge company piloting driverless cars expand its testbed to include much of the South Boston Waterfront and Fort Point.

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Cue the turkeys

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 8:17am.

Be a great test of their ability to detect obstinate obstacles, no?

Don't worry we will ban them

By Brookline on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 11:56am.

Don't worry we will ban them from our streets. The self driving cars that is. We are too afraid to ban the turkeys. The turkeys fight back and persist. Or at least insist upon themselves.

How about practice with bike lanes?

By spin_o_rama on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 10:38am.

Uber's driverless cars had trouble dealing with right-hooks in the SF area.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/19/uber-self-driving-car...

On day one, numerous autonomous vehicles – which have a driver in the front seat who can take control – were caught running red lights and committing a range of traffic violations.

When the car was in “self-driving” mode, the coalition’s executive director, who tested the car two days before the launch, observed it twice making an “unsafe right-hook-style turn through a bike lane”.

So basically, your average Boston driver.

At least the self driving

By anon on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 10:54am.

At least the self driving cars can learn however!

Dude - you're quoting an

By bostonbob235 on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 12:35pm.

Dude - you're quoting an article that is talking about Uber's cars. Adam's blog post is about a totally different company based out of Cambridge that will be testing their driverless cars, except with the appropriate permits. They are working with MA / Boston regulators to do it legally and there is no evidence yet that their cars will have the same problem that Uber's will.

And that article is ridiculous. You test the vehicles so that you can find problems and update the programming. It doesn't mean that from now going forward, all Uber cars will permanently have this problem and kill all bicyclists. They will update the software probably in 24 hours and the problem is gone.

Dude, you're jumping to conclusions

By spin_o_rama on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 1:39pm.

I don't think all Uber cars will permanently have this problem and kill all bicyclists.

I think that if both human and computer driven cars have trouble with cycling infrastructure, maybe the bigger issue is the infrastructure itself.

Driverless cars in Boston?

By anon on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 2:23pm.

Get out the popcorn and take in the tomato plants.