Comment by mjevans

Comment by mjevans 2 days ago

3 replies

The want to be E but really armchair engineer in me for this context says there's far too little Engineering safety of the situation.

That school should not be on a busy roadway at all, it should also not have a child dropoff area anywhere near one but instead, ideally, a slow loop where the parents do drop off children, and then proceed forward in a safe direction away from the school in a flow.

well_ackshually 2 days ago

It's funny because now you're sounding like you're blaming the school/the city for the situation.

Things are what they are. Driving situations are never perfect and that's why we adapt. The Waymo was speeding in a school zone. Did a dangerously fast overtake of a double parked car. It's engineering safety failure over engineering safety failure from Waymo's part, on nobody else.

  • cwillu 2 days ago

    > The Waymo was speeding in a school zone

    Source? The article doesn't list a speed limit, but highways.dot.gov suggests to me that the speed limit would be 25mph in the school zone, in which case the waymo was going significantly under the speed limit.

    • mleo 2 days ago

      It is 15mph at this school with kids present. So percentage wise kind of high, but in absolute terms not much.