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Looks like somewhere between 1.0 and 1.2 seconds between when I can see the pedestrian in the video and when the collision occurred. I don't think a normal hum
by bcheung 9y ago
Looks like somewhere between 1.0 and 1.2 seconds between when I can see the pedestrian in the video and when the collision occurred.
I don't think a normal human, even if they were paying attention to the road, could have braked or swerved in time to avoid hitting them.
Not sure if visibility is better for a real human than that video but from what I remember about the eye test at the DMV it is extremely lax. They had a vision test sign with a really big font and it was really close. I was appalled that they let people drive who can't see the vision test sign on the opposite side of the room -- even that was ridiculously easy to read.
Also, even if they reacted within 0.1 seconds (unlikely) I doubt the car would have been able to slow down in that timeframe.
I'm surprised IR and LIDAR didn't pick it up though. Would be useful to have the other data released. Video is only a small part of what the car sees and excluding this information is a huge disservice.
Not sure if they already do, but would be nice, no, imperative, for car companies to collect "black box" data of collisions and shared this with all other interested parties. This is a dataset that would be extremely beneficial for all self-driving AI engineers.