Originally Posted by
mtb_addict
Sounds like the teckies are trying to mandate gps transponder on every bicycles.
It's speeled "techies" - but anyway the headline from the story is really about a "techie" - singular, an Associate Professor at CMU. (And a couple of students working with him.)
Anyhow, here's the quote that caught my eye:
Originally Posted by NPR Morning Edition
That kind of patience hasn't been lost on cyclists in Pittsburgh, one of three places where Uber is testing its fleet of self-driving cars. Bike Pittsburgh, a local cycling and pedestrian nonprofit, surveyed people about how they felt sharing the streets with the company's gleaming gray Volvos.
"Honestly, I was predicting that people would be a bit more reluctant to ride around them or would be a little more critical of them," says Eric Boerer, Bike Pittsburgh's advocacy director. "People did feel much more comfortable riding next to autonomous vehicles than they did next to human vehicles. I mean, autonomous vehicles, they don't get angry, they don't have road rage."
I found walking around the autonomous Uber vehicles to be complete non-events.
But do be afraid, very afraid, because, uh, fear?
-mr. bill