27001. (a) The driver of a motor vehicle when reasonably necessary
to insure safe operation shall give audible warning with his horn.
Honk for the other vehicle in a parking space?
Who is in danger?
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To be fair, regular drivers use it way too leniently too. I wish it was as loud on the inside as it is on the outside. Then maybe people would be a bit more hesitant to use it outside of emergencies.
Why don't these communicate with each other?
Lidar, 29 cameras, radar and high end CPU and GPU but they can only communicate with other through honking?
Really?
Is this a security feature?
I strongly doubt they're communicating through honks to each other, it sounds like a safety feature that needs tuning to me.
Despite the inconvenience, he tells me he's still a fan of the autonomous vehicle company and uses the cars on a regular basis.
looks like there's no reason to fix them, then
If they had half a brain, Waymo could geofence and time gate the honking so it won't occur in those lots.
There was a short story by Isaac Asimov that had robotic cars on a farm that some old guy salvaged. At the end, they were all honking at each other to communicate. I won't spoil the story in case anyone wants to read it. It is in The Complete Robot collection. I'll just say it was creepy.
The story is called “Sally” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_(short_story)). I couldn’t find a readily available copy of The Complete Robot online, but Z-Library has it.
The Complete Robot
The Open Library has a copy.
Untitled Goose game ruined me. I think of a different kind of honk any time I see the word.