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pavel_lishin on Aug 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles wi...

I'm afraid that in New York, this would just lead to total gridlock as a few people would stop traffic by jaywalking, leading to a bigger flow of people following them.

danweber on Aug 7, 2012 [–]

There's a classic science fiction story that I cannot remember now where people do exactly that.

If it becomes a problem, the car can transmit images of the jaywalkers to the police.

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