Michael Thériault on Nostr: Was bicycling south on Harrison in #SanFrancisco this afternoon and where the street ...
Was bicycling south on Harrison in #SanFrancisco this afternoon and where the street narrows as it reaches 24th I put my left arm out to signal to a car not far behind that I was moving over. At the stoplight I looked back and saw that it was an unoccupied Waymo. Questions: Do the robots recognize hand signals, or did this one slow to avoid me because I was an Unpredictable Moving Object? And if I repeat the gesture vigorously, as I do sometimes to insist on a merge left, will they understand?
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