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A Waymo robotaxi and a Serve delivery robot collided in Los Angeles
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On December 27, a Waymo robotaxi and a Serve Robotics sidewalk
delivery robot collided at a Los Angeles intersection, according to a
video that's circulating on social media.

The footage shows a Serve bot crossing a street in West Hollywood at
night and trying to get onto the sidewalk. It reached the curb, backed
up a little to correct itself and started moving toward the ramp.
That's when a Waymo making a right turn hit the little bot.
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When TechCrunch asked Waymo whether the robotaxi saw the bot, a
spokesperson said that the Waymo Driver system correctly observed that
the delivery robot was an inanimate object. The Driver is designed to
be a cautious defensive driver that prioritizes the safest driving
path with the information it has at any given moment, and its ability
to classify and distinguish different types of road users and objects
informs its behavior around them. For example, the Driver is
programmed to be more cautious around children and pedestrians.

This isn't to say that Waymo's Driver will just bulldoze anything
inanimate; in this case, the delivery robot had paused at the curb
before driving into the vehicle turning lane just as the Waymo
robotaxi entered the intersection. At that point, the Waymo Driver
applied hard braking before making contact with the delivery robot at
4 miles per hour, according to the Waymo spokesperson.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/31/a-waymo-robotaxi-and-a-serve-delivery-robot-collided-in-los-angeles/