Yes, lots of risk of a rear-end collision here. About 0.4g average with a higher peak, 18mph in about 2 seconds. That’s a fast stop. Maybe it’ll be fine when everyone has FCW.
Yep. Now that I think about it more this is clearly engagement bait. His post will probably get a huge number of people arguing in the comments earning him some nice creator revenue.
But only dumb because the lead car ended up moving further down the lane. All cars were braking through the keep clear area with red traffic lights ahead.
Unless one is in CANADA, the pedestrian in the middle of the road and not at a crosswalk or intersection does NOT have right of way… that’s JAYWALKING… now, if you HIT them, you’re at fault for sure, but cars or drivers stopping randomly in the middle of a regular road, where there is NO intersection, NO crosswalk, NO zebra stripes, etc. for a pedestrian who decides to step off and cross a fluid bi-directional line of moving vehicles…. That’s just inviting other drivers to crash into cars, go AROUND - which is worse, etc.
But it knew there was tons of room ahead of the lead cars, so it made no sense. And the vehicle ahead was moving rapidly, at least 10-15mph, so it was clear that space would be available and there was no need to wait for it to open up.
Oops, I was actually imagining a crosswalk or at an intersection. No crosswalk is a much more complicated case.
In Canada, there is no jaywalking, but there is interfering with traffic and pedestrians outside crosswalks don't have right of way.
How did it know the amount of space in front of the box truck?
Start booking!
I don’t know, but it knew! (Excellent - and required of course.)
I’m not sure what this is saying, but in CA when a pedestrian steps off the curb, and NOT only at an intersection or crosswalk even, vehicles are supposed to come to a stop. Maybe that has changed in the last 24 years since I lived there, but it was VERY different than anywhere in the USA.
Reviewing the path changes, perhaps 12.2.1 basically did consider what you described for both the right turn lane selection and subsequent lane change maneuvers. 1) Initially it correctly detected a gap in the outside lane to turn into with the long blue path into the right lane. 2) However, some reason it then decided it should wait for oncoming vehicles for it to turn directly into the left lane -- perhaps it saw the queue and determined there wouldn't be enough space to make the right then immediate lane change. (There's been various other videos of 12.x smoothly crossing multiple lanes immediately after a right turn, so presumably it would have done the same if there was no oncoming traffic.) 3) Seems like once it noticed the last oncoming left turn vehicle was approaching, it decided to abort waiting and just continue into the right lane.
Based on my Google results, it has changed from that.
