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I agree...how do you cross a street like this? How can you expect and trust that a driver to see you/stop for you? Maybe he's not paying attention, maybe he's

• noobermin 9y ago
  I love how you contemplate the logic of the pedestrian but impute no responsibility into a potential driver. Why do people want to defend a clearly defunct AV system so much that they question the thinking process of a woman who was killed?
  • fwn 9y ago
    Not OP, but pointing at risky behaviour alone does not say anything about the drivers, the companies or the pedestrians responsibility. It's not football, so one does not have to choose sides at such issues.
  • confiscate 9y ago
    no i am not defending the AV. If someone was "wrong", it was definitely the AV and not the pedestrian. The AV should definitely have at least tried to stop, it screwed up. Pedestrian has the right of way. Having said that, I wouldn't want folks on HN to take this as an example and say "hey I am entitled to cross the road without looking, cars would decelerate for me and will always stop for me because i am entitled to right-of-way". WRONG You cross the road without looking, the car hits you. Sure, AV or human-driver, the car would always be wrong. You are "right" because you are the pedestrian and have right of way. You win the logical argument, but you are the one spending a year in the hospital. Do you want to be "right"? Is taking a quick look at the road that much work for you?
  • incompatible 9y ago
    An accident like this only occurs with multiple failures: a person crossing the road somewhat carelessly. a driver not paying attention to the road, and in this case, an autopilot system that didn't do what it's supposed to do.