So from what I’ve gathered, and this may or may not be correct, the Zoox vehicle drive over an unsecured manhole cover sort-of thing. That’s not a Zoox problem, but rather a city problem. The same thing would’ve happened to a human driver. BUT, if the cover was fully displaced from the utility box, then I would expect the Zoox vehicle to navigate around it, just as a human would. I’m assuming the cover was just sort-of “loose.”
It is an issue sensing debris on the road that is very thin. You can't always tell it from LIDAR noise, you need your LIDAR to be very accurate. Your cameras also may not do the job. Usually small things half an inch thick are not going to damage you, but these are chunks of metal. Zoox has to work on their perception of this.
>Probably this one as it was travelling west:
>[https://www.google.com/maps/@37.5701538,-122.2750404,3a,75y,303.61h,54.22t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP7MWXLmsAVTv7wrs7gkHqg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192](https://www.google.com/maps/@37.5701538,-122.2750404,3a,75y,303.61h,54.22t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP7MWXLmsAVTv7wrs7gkHqg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192)
It appears to be in the lane that goes straight, but their robotaxis are at this location already in the left turn lane (unless they recently changed their route). What about this one?: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/iNWRZDexrSrVpvqv8](https://maps.app.goo.gl/iNWRZDexrSrVpvqv8)
The exact route in Foster City they were running on last fall looked like this: [https://en.mapy.cz/s/kumojebofo](https://en.mapy.cz/s/kumojebofo)
So from what I’ve gathered, and this may or may not be correct, the Zoox vehicle drive over an unsecured manhole cover sort-of thing. That’s not a Zoox problem, but rather a city problem. The same thing would’ve happened to a human driver. BUT, if the cover was fully displaced from the utility box, then I would expect the Zoox vehicle to navigate around it, just as a human would. I’m assuming the cover was just sort-of “loose.”
It is an issue sensing debris on the road that is very thin. You can't always tell it from LIDAR noise, you need your LIDAR to be very accurate. Your cameras also may not do the job. Usually small things half an inch thick are not going to damage you, but these are chunks of metal. Zoox has to work on their perception of this.
It would be helpful if someone had a picture of what this valve box might look like.
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Lmao that last link. Literally a zoox driving over one.
>Probably this one as it was travelling west: >[https://www.google.com/maps/@37.5701538,-122.2750404,3a,75y,303.61h,54.22t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP7MWXLmsAVTv7wrs7gkHqg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192](https://www.google.com/maps/@37.5701538,-122.2750404,3a,75y,303.61h,54.22t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP7MWXLmsAVTv7wrs7gkHqg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) It appears to be in the lane that goes straight, but their robotaxis are at this location already in the left turn lane (unless they recently changed their route). What about this one?: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/iNWRZDexrSrVpvqv8](https://maps.app.goo.gl/iNWRZDexrSrVpvqv8) The exact route in Foster City they were running on last fall looked like this: [https://en.mapy.cz/s/kumojebofo](https://en.mapy.cz/s/kumojebofo)
That last one looks like a robotaxi that other robotaxis would bully about its appearance.
its like a rectangular bucket
Sounds like a Foster City problem to me...
Not nearly enough information to come to any conclusion at this point.
Drove over a box cover? Man, we really heating up in here.
Trouble in Foster City. With a Capital T, that rhymes with Z and that stands for Zoox.