Waymo Teams With Jaguar I-pace

[Rob Croson]

Waymo is buying 20,000 Jaguar I-PACE cars to outfit with Waymo self-driving tech. This is in addition to the "thousands" of Chrysler Pacifica minivans they already own/have on order. They plan on offering self-driving ride sharing in the Pheonix area in 2018, but AFAIK they have not specified if they will start with the I-PACE or the existing Chrysler Pacifica models.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/27/w...guar-to-intro-a-new-premium-self-driving-car/

GM's Cruise Automation is already manufacturing self-driving Bolts, and plans on launching their autonomous ride sharing next year.

 

[W. WIllie]

Az. Govenor has banned the Uber self driving vehicles per the news media.

 

[RSchneider]

With no self driving cars, what do we do now? Maybe go to self flying cars?

 

[W. WIllie]

Now the maker of the auto pilot, is saying that the system wasn't turned on at the time of the accident, per FOX news.
Maybe that is what the driver was doing while looking down, turning the system off.
Who knows, blame will be routed everywhere.

 

[RUCRAYZE]

SEPT. 13, 1899: NEW YORKER BECOMES FIRST U.S. PEDESTRIAN KILLED BY CAR




1899: Henry Bliss becomes the first pedestrian known to be killed by an automobile in North America.

Bliss, a Manhattan real estate salesman, had just stepped off a streetcar at West 74th Street and Central Park West (a few blocks south of the American Museum of Natural History) when he was struck by a passing taxicab. It knocked him unconscious, crushing his skull and chest. He died the following morning.

The driver of the cab, an electric-powered vehicle, was arrested and charged with manslaughter. The charges were dropped after it was determined that Bliss' death was unintentional.

On the centennial of his death, Citystreets, a safety-awareness organization, placed a plaque at the site:

Here at West 74th Street and Central Park West, Henry H. Bliss dismounted from a streetcar and was struck and knocked unconscious by an automobile on the evening of September 13, 1899. When Mr. Bliss, a New York real estate man, died the next morning from his injuries, he became the first recorded motor vehicle fatality in the Western Hemisphere. This sign was erected to remember Mr. Bliss on the centennial of his untimely death and to promote safety on our streets and highways.

Bliss was not the first pedestrian traffic fatality ever recorded anywhere, however. At least two other people are known to have died before him, including Irish scientist Mary Ward, who was run over by a steam-powered car in 1869 in County Down, possibly making her the first auto-traffic victim in the world.

It didn't stop the future of autos.
BTW, and VERY funny, it was an electric car!!