Cruise's Solution to Robotaxis and Emergency Vehicles: Let Them Move the Car
I think a lot of this could be automated with an exclusion zone around any emergency vehicle stopped within traffic space.  Do not approach, leave if possible and always ask the operators for help if it finds itself within such an exclusion zone.<p>Cruise is level 4 pretending to be level 5.  It needs a better understanding of what it doesn&#x27;t know--and any emergency scene above a traffic stop appears to be beyond it&#x27;s understanding.  The robocars are too reliant on expecting other cars to behave that they fail with the cars that are allowed to misbehave and they don&#x27;t understand that doing something &quot;illegal&quot; might very well be the right behavior.  (I&#x27;ve done so when I was stopped at a light and sirens were coming up behind me.  I could safely move out of the way but violating multiple traffic laws in doing so--any human would understand what I was up to but a robocar wouldn&#x27;t even consider what I did.)<p>(Yes, my approach would mean that if a cop pulls someone over but remains in a traffic lane the robocar gets stuck behind it.  I don&#x27;t consider this a serious problem--that lane isn&#x27;t moving anyway.)