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Timeline: 00:03 - The feet of the pedestrian are visible 00:04 - The entire body of the pedestrian is visible 00:05 - Collision occurs If we assume that the
by gophile 9y ago
Timeline:
00:03 - The feet of the pedestrian are visible
00:04 - The entire body of the pedestrian is visible
00:05 - Collision occurs
If we assume that the computer only had this video as input, then the computer only had 2 seconds to avoid the collision. That would be unavoidable for the computer. But the fact that there was no sign of slowing down or braking in these 2 seconds is pretty alarming.
But it sounds unlikely that this video was the only input to the computer. Did the car have multiple cameras to "see" bright as well as dark objects at night? I would imagine that a self-driving car driving at night would use multiple cameras (tuned to various level of brightness) so that the car can match human level vision?
- teraflop 9y ago> the computer only had 2 seconds to avoid the collision. That would be unavoidable for the computer. At the time of the accident, the car was traveling about 40mph. A Volvo XC90 is capable of braking from 60mph to zero in about 2 seconds. https://www.autoevolution.com/news/2016-range-rover-sport-fails-braking-test-falls-way-behind-volvo-xc90-audi-q7-video-99010.html https://www.autoevolution.com/news/2016-range-rover-sport-fa...