<story><title>How fixed-gear bikes can confuse Google’s self-driving cars</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/08/26/how-fixed-gear-bikes-can-confuse-googles-self-driving-cars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drcode</author><text>Please Google Engineers: If your car knows where bicyclists are anyways, can you please have an additional safety to stop people from opening the driver-side door, even in a parked car, if a bicyclist is actively passing the car?&lt;p&gt;That is probably the biggest danger to me as a bicyclist in the city: People opening doors on parked cars for me to slam into (and potentially throwing me into a lane of car traffic) Your cars could easily outperform most humans in preventing this dangerous situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaytaylor</author><text>The notion of physically preventing the doors from opening makes me uncomfortable.&lt;p&gt;How about instead providing some kind of warning so people will know it&amp;#x27;s a bad time to open the door?&lt;p&gt;This would be some cool tech for sure!</text></comment>
<story><title>How fixed-gear bikes can confuse Google’s self-driving cars</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/08/26/how-fixed-gear-bikes-can-confuse-googles-self-driving-cars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drcode</author><text>Please Google Engineers: If your car knows where bicyclists are anyways, can you please have an additional safety to stop people from opening the driver-side door, even in a parked car, if a bicyclist is actively passing the car?&lt;p&gt;That is probably the biggest danger to me as a bicyclist in the city: People opening doors on parked cars for me to slam into (and potentially throwing me into a lane of car traffic) Your cars could easily outperform most humans in preventing this dangerous situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>branchless</author><text>Wow this is a great thought. Imagine: cycling without worrying about being car doored.</text></comment>