Anthony: Pedestrians physically punched Cruise autonomous cars in 2017
Sam Anthony · Human Intuition for Machines // Sam Anthony, Perceptive Automata (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Nov 13, 2019 · at 8:47
Sam Anthony, Co-Founder and CTO of Perceptive Automata, discusses public frustration and safety incident reports regarding autonomous vehicle behavior in San Francisco.
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“So, in particular I think it was in 2017, the incident reports from crews, there were two or three times where somebody punched the car.”
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