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Comment by samrus

18 hours ago

But would a human be driving at 17 in a school zone during drop off hours? Id argue a human may be slower exactly because of this scenario

> would a human be driving at 17 in a school zone during drop off hours?

In my experience in California, always and yes.

  • Maybe we should not only replace the unsafe humans with robots, but also have the robots drive in a safe manner near schools rather than replicating the unsafe human behavior?

    • One argument for the robots is that they can be programmed to drive safer, while humans cant.

      But that depends on reliability, especially in unforseen (and untrained-upon) circumstances. We'll have to see how they do, but they have been doing better than expected

Depends on the school zone. The tech school near me is in a 50 zone and they don't even turn on the "20 when flashing" signs because if you're gonna walk there, you're gonna come in via residential side streets in the back and the school itself is way back off the road. The other school near me is downtown and you wouldn't be able to go 17 even if you wanted to.