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For reference, I found this video over on reddit (from /u/ghdana) of the area. It looks _very_ different with even a cell phone camera. https://www.youtube.co

For reference, I found this video over on reddit (from /u/ghdana) of the area. It looks _very_ different with even a cell phone camera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOVxSCG8u0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOVxSCG8u0 Edit: I guess this video is also referenced in the article, after Brian's.

zython 9y ago
To be fair, cell phone cameras as I recall have a tendency to push the ISO up, so it potentially could look different IRL (I'm purposefully being vague). Ideally /u/ghdana would have posted the camera settings which filmed this, so you could get a better understanding of the situation. Not that I'm defending UBER on this, as others have said LIDAR and IR in addition to the cameras should have picked the woman up.
- ksk 9y ago
  >To be fair, cell phone cameras as I recall have a tendency to push the ISO up, so it potentially could look different IRL (I'm purposefully being vague). That is true, but raising the ISO for proper (well 18% grey anyway.) exposure is something pretty much every retail camera made in the past decade does. I doubt UBER is using some experimental esoteric camera here.
mieseratte 9y ago
That's a pretty stark difference from the Uber video. There's no reason this incident should have happened.
Steltek 9y ago
Sadly Inevitable Meta: Howdy folks, look, I appreciate the upvotes on a comment I made quickly (because I've been following this topic with some interest) but it's not nearly as content rich as some of the other top level comments around here. That said, I appreciate a site like Arstechnica doing a great job of dissecting just how badly Uber's tech failed here, legal responsibility or not.
ebikelaw 9y ago
I think the best explanation for the very poor quality of the video released by the police is that it's a video of a video, as if they recorded a video of the original video being played back on an LCD display.

zython 9y ago

To be fair, cell phone cameras as I recall have a tendency to push the ISO up, so it potentially could look different IRL (I'm purposefully being vague). Ideally /u/ghdana would have posted the camera settings which filmed this, so you could get a better understanding of the situation. Not that I'm defending UBER on this, as others have said LIDAR and IR in addition to the cameras should have picked the woman up.

ksk 9y ago
>To be fair, cell phone cameras as I recall have a tendency to push the ISO up, so it potentially could look different IRL (I'm purposefully being vague). That is true, but raising the ISO for proper (well 18% grey anyway.) exposure is something pretty much every retail camera made in the past decade does. I doubt UBER is using some experimental esoteric camera here.

mieseratte 9y ago

That's a pretty stark difference from the Uber video. There's no reason this incident should have happened.

Steltek 9y ago

Sadly Inevitable Meta: Howdy folks, look, I appreciate the upvotes on a comment I made quickly (because I've been following this topic with some interest) but it's not nearly as content rich as some of the other top level comments around here. That said, I appreciate a site like Arstechnica doing a great job of dissecting just how badly Uber's tech failed here, legal responsibility or not.

ebikelaw 9y ago

I think the best explanation for the very poor quality of the video released by the police is that it's a video of a video, as if they recorded a video of the original video being played back on an LCD display.