Comment by ithkuil

I recently had a broken traffic light in my city, it was daylight and I didn't notice any other lights that should be on during the day to be off.

My approach was to get closer into the intersection slowly and judge whether the perpendicular traffic would slow down and also try to figure out what was going on or if they would just zip through like if they had green.

It required some attention and some judgement. It definitely wasn't the normal day to day driving where you don't quite think consciously what you're doing.

I understand that individual autonomous vehicles cannot be expected to be given the responsibility to make such a call and the safest thing to do for them is to have them stop.

But I assumed there were still many human operators that would oversee the fleet and they could make the call that the traffic lights are all off