Street Signs Must Reads by AI Driverless Cars, How It Works
Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider
Street signs. Road signs. Posted signs. Traffic signs. They all seem to be yelling at us while we are driving. Sometimes they appear in a flurry. Sometimes you don’t even notice them, yet they stand there, trying to get our attention.
Can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
A few years ago, I was tricked (I claim) by a road sign that was being used by a motorcycle cop to write numerous traffic tickets. Here’s my story.
In downtown Los Angeles, there is a popular one-way street that reaches another popular one-way street that is perpendicular to it. Everybody comes up to the corner to make a right turn from one of those streets onto the other. When there is a red light, of course traffic normally comes to a full stop prior to trying to make the right turn, and proceeds only when the pedestrian walkway is empty and otherwise it is legal to proceed. This particular right turn is well known and frequented by especially the evening heading-home-from-work downtown drivers.
So, having made that same turn hundreds of times, I drive up to it one evening around 6 p.m., I dutifully came to a full stop since the traffic light was red, I made sure there was no one in the pedestrian walkway, and then I made the turn.
