Earthquakes will rattle the proficiency of self-driving cars
Driving during and after an earthquake can be dicey, so what will self-driving driverless cars do, that's a natural question to ask. Photocredit: GettyCalifornia has been rocking and rolling, doing so to the tune of several recent earthquakes and aftershocks. That shaking feeling has also been felt in numerous nearby states, along with finding its way south of the border into Mexico.
Sure, we all tend to think about our homes swaying and the dangers of household objects falling upon us, or maybe you might be imagining how stores could dump over their racks of groceries and goods, but do you ponder the adverse impact toAs soon as an earthquake has made itself known, you might be surprised to know that phalanxes of inspectors and others trained to examine roadway cracks and gaps are on-the-go, fanning out to check the transportation infrastructure .
People often react to an earthquake by worrying about loved ones that might be a distance away and so will jump into their cars to race over to be with a relative or close friend. Or, sometimes the destruction where you are is so overwhelming that you opt to drive out of the damaged area to find a locale that was untouched or at least still fully operating.
Luckily, my active earthquake driving was generally undetectable in the driver’s seat, being so mild in impacting the motion of the car that I tended not to even realize an earthquake was taking place . Of course, the impact that you’ll witness is dependent upon the severity of the earthquake, including how far away the earthquake epicenter was. If you are quite close to the main burst of earth moving action, the odds of heightened damages and dangers go up. Power lines could fall onto the roadway, and entire building structures could completely fall and land on cars or block the paths of cars.are more worrisome than the effects of the earthquake itself.
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