Cookie, take the wheel! What’s with all the driverless cars zooming around Austin?

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if you've seen a cruise car around downtown austin or west campus, you're not alone. but what exactly is the deal with these self-driving cars? read all about it in my last for KUT⬇️

Cruise riders can report issues like a car driving in a bike lane, and the company says it will look into it.

Stone compares this to testing robots in the hallways of UT's engineering buildings. Robots will wheel around for hours with a student following, making note of any disruptions or mistakes the robots run into. The code is then tweaked and edited, and the robot is sent back into the hallway for further testing.

Cruise cars are coded to default to the safest possible action — even if that sometimes means stopping in the middle of a road with hazards flashing when a danger is detected.“There was traffic backed up multiple blocks,” he said. “There was really no way for anyone to get around or to get past it.”

 

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