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Orange cones are robot kryptonite.

At least seven driverless Waymo vehicles blocked the on-ramp to 101 after being flummoxed by a construction site on Portrero Drive, according to video of the incident posted on Reddit…”

Hmmmm…   What?? Really, there was no way to get from A2B is to use the 101 and Waymo didn’t find out in time to not provide service to B from anywhere around A?  Sounds like a Waymo management problem.  They send their cars into areas where people are playing with fireworks and want to give service between locations that are unconnected by the set of public roads that they’ve been given permission to use free of charge.  That’s not a robot problem, that’s a human oversight management problem. Robots should not be ordered by humans to do things that is either impossible or illegal for them to do. Title of this should be… “Orange cones are management kryptonite”.  Alain & Elizabeth