The system is smart enough, it seems, to keep the Tesla driving safely even with a seemingly incapacitated driver, but not yet smart enough to obey police sirens and pull over.
Last year, Waymo became the first autonomous vehicle maker to publish a law enforcement interaction protocol.
The car, which seems to have navigated about 10 miles of nighttime highway driving without the aid of a human, may well have saved a drunk driver from harming himself or others. Neither Tesla nor the police, however, are ready for people to begin relying on the technology in this way. Such familiarity is to be expected, perhaps, in the heart of Silicon Valley — the car stopped halfway between the headquarters of Facebook and Google — but relying on the quick wits of law enforcement is not a scalable plan.
Waymo LLC, the autonomous-driving start-up launched by Google’s parent company and now serving passengers in the Phoenix area, has already run up against almost the exact scenario that worried Leonard. In January a sensor-laden Chrysler Pacifica minivan in Waymo’s automated ride-hailing fleet rolled up to a darkened stoplight in Tempe, Ariz. The power had gone out, and a police officer stood in the roadway directing traffic.
Volunteers in a Waymo minivan. The company picked Chandler, a Phoenix suburb with wide avenues, sunny weather and welcoming state and local governments, for its first living laboratory. Michigan state trooper Ken Monroe took Ford engineers on ride-alongs around Flint last summer. The engineers were especially curious about what he wanted drivers to do as he came up behind them with lights flashing, and how those responses differed depending on whether he was pulling over a car or trying to get past.
Teaching autonomous cars to pull to the right is a relatively straightforward task. The point of the lights and sirens, after all, is to be noticed from far away. Inrix Inc., a Washington state-based start-up that specializes in digital traffic and parking information, has started offering software to cities that allows them to enter traffic rules and roadway markers into the high-definition maps used by AV developers. City officials can mark the locations of stop signs, crosswalks, bike lanes and so on, and when an AV pings the navigation software to map a route, it will get the rules and restrictions for its trip.
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