Видео Беспилотный автомобиль Waymo несколько раз застревал, периодически задерживал движение и неожиданно уезжал, когда прибыла помощь. Своенравный автономный автомобиль, наконец, был реквизирован водителем поддержки.
Джоэл Джонсон записал несколько десятков видеороликов о своих поездках на роботакси Waymo, которые он размещает на своем веб-сайте и канале YouTube.
Видео 54 подробно рассказывает, как поездка на прошлой неделе в Чендлере, штат Аризона, пошла наперекосяк, когда его автомобиль Waymo затормозил при повороте направо с Вест-Линда-лейн на Норт-Добсон-роуд, четырехполосную дорогу, где правая полоса из двух полос, идущих на юг, была заблокирована движением. конусы.
"Oh, so, how are we going to turn right when the right lane is closed off?" Johnson can be услышанный рассказывает сам себе 12 минут и 25 секунд из 35-минутного видео ниже, когда застрявшие водители издают звуковой сигнал.
Moments later, Waymo rider support calls. "It looks like your car has paused," the Waymo customer service rep informs Johnson. "We are going to be sending our Waymo Road Assistance."
Ремень туго
Johnson is advised to remain seated with his seat belt fastened in case the car starts moving again, which it does: about four minutes later, the car decides to turn into the unblocked lefthand southbound land, only to swerve back into the right hand lane between two traffic cones after passing the "Keep Left" sign that directs drivers not to be in that lane.
"Oh, I don't think it was supposed to do that," Johnson said to the Waymo operator, still on the line. "...Oh now, it's blocking the entire road."
Через несколько минут машина задним ходом выезжает на открытую левую полосу.
"Okay, so we 're backing out," said Johnson. "Very interesting."
"So it backed out…," the operator said.
"And then now it's blocking the whole lane instead of half of it," Johnson replied.
Примерно через десять минут после начала драки, на фоне путаницы по поводу фактического ожидаемого времени прибытия обещанной помощи на дороге (возобновление движения отменило первоначальный вызов помощи на дороге), строительный грузовик медленно приближался по перекрытой правой полосе, направляясь на север против движения, чтобы забрать машину. конусы.
After passing the stalled robotaxi, the construction vehicle halts and the driver gets out to help redirect traffic. When the driver approaches, Johnson informs him that he can't move the Waymo and that Roadside Assistance is coming.
Через несколько мгновений автомобиль начинает поворачивать обратно в свободный левый ряд, внезапно останавливается, когда его обгоняет другой автомобиль, и возобновляет движение, прежде чем служба помощи на дороге успевает вмешаться.
'Hurry up, it's gonna escape!'
Проехав около минуты в южном направлении, бесстрашный Waymo останавливается на левой полосе Норт-Добсон-роуд, наткнувшись на новые дорожные конусы.
Addressing the support operator, Johnson said of the planned route displayed on-screen in the car, "I don't know if you can see the planner, but it wants to go halfway between lanes, like right over the cones."
В конце концов, Roadside Assistance подъезжает к остановившемуся Waymo. Затем машина решает уйти before Waymo's driver can take manual control, only to again get stuck amid the cones.
"You better hurry up, it's gonna escape," Johnson remarked.
"The car took off again?" the operator said.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes," said Johnson as the car's steering wheel turns on its own. "Uh well, a little bit, and then it ... this is, um. Now it's ... I don't even know what's going on anymore."
Finally, the Roadside Assistance driver gets into the car and takes over to complete the ride. Here's the full video:
В заявлении по электронной почте Регистр, Уэймо рассказал об этом приключении:
Легкий ездок
Джонсон в телефонном интервью Регистр, воспринял инцидент спокойно, имея документированный multiple rides where it's been necessary to disengage the Waymo driver software.
He said when he saw the traffic cones, "I figured it would get stuck." And he insisted he's mostly fine with it. He said he didn't feel unsafe and trusted Waymo's technology. However, he did acknowledge however that some rough spots remain.
"Waymo seems to have a bit of issues with the weather whenever it rains here in Chandler," he said.
Asked whether he believes Waymo's robotaxis should be operating on the road, he said, "I think it's ready for this area and that's why they launched here." The roads in Chandler, he said, are wide open, in a grid format, and allow for a lot of possible detours.
"In this situation, there was some internal miscommunication," he said, adding that he hopes the Alphabet-owned Google stablemate will improve its internal processes. "Overall, the Waymo Roadside Assistance and rider support is helpful."
Он рег ранее переправу that Google's self-driving cars struggled with stop lights, sunsets, junctions, and the Arizona heat.
In a YouTube video commenting on Johnson's adventure, Mahmood Hikmet, head of research and development at self-driving bus biz Ohmio, заметил, "If the passenger inside the vehicle is put into a situation where they have to wave and signal to the vehicle behind them in order to go around them, that's not exactly ideal from a robotaxi perspective."
"If Waymo just allowed Joel to drive this vehicle to safety, a lot of this could have been avoided," Hikmet добавленный, ®
Источник: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/05/17/waymo_robotaxi_malfunction/
