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On the other hand, the robot lost its nerve trying to turn right across a crosswalk.

Waymo may iron out the kinks in its software, but my AV in the crosswalk was a metaphor: There’s only so much room on the road, and if space is held by a car, it’s not available for anything else.

Unfortunately, the spot was blocking a crosswalk and a bike lane.

Hench: “I want to tell a story: We were crossing Ventura Boulevard — this big multilane street — and right in the middle of the crosswalk there was a praying mantis. And without missing a beat, didn’t Marlo reach down and pick up this praying mantis and carry it with her across to the other side of the street and put it on the lawn? Now, doesn’t that speak volumes?”

In Waterbury, Connecticut, for example, state and local officials worked together to narrow lanes and shorten crosswalk distances on Grand Street downtown, slowing traffic by 10 percent.