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However bad the car was or wasn't at detecting the victim, it's nothing compared to how bad the human victim was at detecting the car (which presumably had its
by aianus 9y ago
However bad the car was or wasn't at detecting the victim, it's nothing compared to how bad the human victim was at detecting the car (which presumably had its lights on coming down an empty street at night).
Imagine if the victim was driving a car...
- jlebar 9y agoAre these cars electric? They can be pretty quiet, even at high speeds.
- urmish 9y agoThis one wasn't. Also you don't cross a main road with your back turned towards the traffic.
- brokenmachine 9y agoWhat's your point? She wasn't driving a car. Imagine if the uber hardware was installed into a petrol tanker. It just just as pointless a discussion. If self driving cars can't be trusted to not smash into any obstacle that appears such as a deer/roadwork/child/runaway shopping cart, then they shouldn't be permitted on the road.
- aianus 9y agoThe point is that humans who have poorer sensors and do even stupider things are allowed to drive. So the bar for self-driving is a lot lower than people around here make it sound.
- perennate 9y agoI actually believe that the kind of situation shown in the video (pedestrian walking across road at night in the path of a car, where car has to brake hard to avoid a collision) happens much more frequently than most people think. And most of the time the pedestrian comes out fine because most drivers are looking ahead most of the time, and someone walking across the road is a big abnormal event that is easy for a human to notice and react to. I don't have any data to support this, other than a vague memory of doing something similar many years ago. Although if I remember correctly, that was a more major road that was probably better lit. But I still find it hard to believe that human vision would have been as lousy as the camera's.
- brokenmachine 9y agoI agree. I can remember quite a few times I've had to slow down. One time there was a bar fight that spilled onto the road I was driving along. I slowed down as I could see the commotion on the sidewalk, and lucky I did because they ended up in the path of my car. This self driving car would have killed quite a few people in that case it seems.
- brokenmachine 9y agoStupider things - I'll give you. But where is the evidence that humans have poorer sensors? All I saw is a car plowing into a person without even applying the brakes. That strongly implies to me that the car wasn't even aware the person was there, as reflexes should not be an issue. Most humans would see that person directly in front of them. So I contend that the car's sensors are poorer than a humans.
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