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The end of the article when it talks about the fire trucks that the car failed to yield to; the article claimed it was because they were yellow instead of red. What about cop cars that are white, black, blue? How about ambulances? This seems super shady behavior to me.
I can't speak about these cars, but I know that Waymo's cars identify the siren/lights to determine the presence of emergency vehicles. Because without the lights and siren, there's no emergency and no need to yield, so they get treated like any other vehicle on the road.
Not sure why Zoox is identifying based on body color. Surely they know paint exists?
There's also unmarked emergency vehicles.
Yes, This. An unmarked huge truck with a massive ladder a big control panel full of dials and stuff, and big-ass hoses everywhere, driven or surrounded by big dudes in red or yellow fireproof jackets, with those cool helmets with the visor backwards, could be confused with a UPS van.
There's plenty of cops driving in civilian cars or doctors on emergency that use their own cars, both can use those little emergency lights they pop onto the roof of their car.
The whole point of unmarked police cars is you can't tell they're a police car until the lights come on.
Also, why wouldn't an unmarked fire truck be useful? It would still function as a fire truck, and the lights would identify it as such. This is a weird take.
Joking about how for a firetruck to be unrecognizable as a fire truck, you'd have to remove so much useful stuff from it/limit access to things from the outside so much as to render it ineffective, and also being kind of absurd by pretending that unmarked firetrucks are at all the subject of what they were talking about