Protecting first responders from autonomous vehicles

One issue that has shown itself repeatedly in vehicles employing self-driving technology is an apparent literal blind spot in such systems for first responders stopped at the side of the road.

Repeated incidents of police cars and fire trucks being struck by cars whose drivers thought were driving themselves show that these “edge” cases of unusual circumstances remain a weakness for the software that studies the information coming into the car from its various imaging systems.

https://www.designnews.com/automotive-engineering/protecting-first-responders-autonomous-vehicles