Brooks said he has reported on particular autonomous vehicle rides, his or others', when he thought the vehicles had done something for which a human driver would somehow be sanctioned.

True if, before 21 October 2023, Brooks had published reports (blog posts, social media posts or articles) describing specific autonomous vehicle rides, taken by himself or by others, in which he said a vehicle did something a human driver would be sanctioned for. Mostly true if such reports exist but cover only his own rides or only others' rides, or if they criticise the vehicle's behaviour without framing it in terms of what a human driver would be sanctioned for. Mixed if only one or two borderline examples exist. Mostly false if he wrote about robotaxi rides but none describes behaviour of this kind. False if his record before that date contains no reports of particular rides at all, for example if his ride accounts all postdate 21 October 2023.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Predictions Scorecard, 2023 January 01 rodneybrooks.com (Rodney Brooks's blog) · 1 January 2023 Own record

   “No human taxi driver would have ignored my waves and gestures to be picked up at a safe spot thirty feet further along the road.”

2. E2 No front seat occupants; adventures in autonomous ride services rodneybrooks.com (Rodney Brooks's blog) · 29 May 2022 Own record

   “This was a mistake that even the most taciturn taxi driver would not make.”

3. E3 Predictions Scorecard, 2023 January 01 rodneybrooks.com (Rodney Brooks's blog) · 1 January 2023 Own record

   “The few times it was in traffic it reminded me of when I taught my kids to drive with heavy unnecessary breaking when other cars were nearby.”

4. E4 No front seat occupants; adventures in autonomous ride services rodneybrooks.com (Rodney Brooks's blog) · 29 May 2022 Own record

   “The correlation I noticed was that when a car or bus passed us on the right the brakes came on strongly, even though there was plenty of space ahead of us in our lane.”

Brooks's blog posts from May 2022 and January 2023 report on specific autonomous rides and criticise particular behaviour: a pickup that ignored his signals, a mistake he says even a taciturn taxi driver would not make, and heavy braking in traffic (E1, E2, E3, E4). These criticisms compare the vehicle with what a human taxi driver would do, but they do not say a human driver would be sanctioned. The evidence covers only his own rides, not rides by others. Under the criteria, either gap makes the claim mostly true.