Autonomous car advocates want pedestrians to adhere to traffic laws.

Bloomberg News (8/16, Kahn, 4.46M) reports that some autonomous car advocates believe the large-scale adaption of self-driving vehicles could be sped up if pedestrians can be convinced “to behave less erratically,” such as avoiding jaywalking and crossing streets at designated crossings where autonomous vehicles will be more likely to detect the person. The piece mentions that the US Department of Transportation’s latest guidance on automated vehicles “has stressed the need for such consumer education.” Bloomberg says that the “novelty” of autonomous vehicles can lead pedestrians to “test the technology’s artificial reflexes,” noting that Waymo vehicles “routinely encounters pedestrians who deliberately try to ‘prank’ its cars, continually stepping in front of them, moving away and then stepping back in front of them, to impede their progress.”