Apollo Go robot taxi cars in Wuhan have blocked the city after they all got bricked somehow. They’re due to appear on UK roads this year. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvge91r9j80o
Baidu's Apollo Go self-driving cars stop mid-traffic in China

Baidu has not responded to a request for comment about the outage, which affected at least 100 cars.

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@GossiTheDog

Ugh, when did 'driverless' (remote controlled by unqualified drivers in a different legal jurisdiction) things get approved in the UK? I thought our regulators were marginally more sensible than that.

@david_chisnall @GossiTheDog Sensible, perhaps; biddable, certainly. Which is, I presume, how I got the chance to flip a bird at a Waymo in London last week.

t's the first I've seen, so the bribery's presumably recent, but as I don't often spend time in the parts where people take cabs (I live South of the River, where it's all buses and hoverboards) I couldn't say how recent.