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Except they didn't back up, the bus hit the truck on its side. So the truck may have pulled out too quickly without care, but the bus should have picked it up.
by megy 9y ago
Except they didn't back up, the bus hit the truck on its side. So the truck may have pulled out too quickly without care, but the bus should have picked it up.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16626224/las-vegas-self-driving-shuttle-crash-accident-first-day https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16626224/las-vegas-self-d...
- phyzome 9y agoIt looks like the truck was backing up while turning, so the side of the truck hit the front of the bus. The truck driver is primarily at fault in that scenario, but I would put the autonomous bus maybe 15% at fault for not backing up or honking.
- lsaferite 9y agoThe bus is 0% at fault. That's fully on the human driver. The bus have certainly done something in an attempt to prevent being hit by the human driver. That doesn't place any fault on the bus though.
- wil421 9y agoThere is no percentage for at fault it’s black or white, it should never be grey. If someone is going to back into you there is no law to honk or back up.
- slededit 9y agoMost states require you to take reasonable steps to avoid an accident.
- dragonwriter 9y agoStopping (which the bus did, turning what would have been a catastrophe into a graze) is a reasonable step to avoid a collision, and it's not clear from anything I've seen that a typical professional human bus driver would have been likely to do much more in the actual circumstance.
- slededit 9y agoThe point is that there is laws requiring you to honk and back up assuming its safe and reasonable to do so if it will avoid an accident. As with all ambiguous laws what is actually "safe and reasonable" is up to a judge should it get that far.
- lsaferite 9y agoThe bus didn't hit the truck. The truck (human driver) backed into the bus. https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/self-driving-bus-crash-vegas-account/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/self-driving-bus-crash-ve...
- smsm42 9y agoThe shuttle did what it was supposed to do, in that it’s sensors registered the truck and the shuttle stopped to avoid the accident. Unfortunately the delivery truck did not stop and grazed the front fender of the shuttle. This is the quote from the very article you linked to. The bus picked it up. The human driver hit it anyway. Obviously the bus' fault - it should have predicted that and stayed away from streets full with crappy drivers in trucks.