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edit: nevermind, see makomk's response to me. The NTSB report is pretty unclear, I had to re-read it several times and I think you're correct that the "emergen
by squeaky-clean 8y ago
edit: nevermind, see makomk's response to me.
The NTSB report is pretty unclear, I had to re-read it several times and I think you're correct that the "emergency braking maneuvers" they refer to are the Volvo ones. It's strange though that they word it as
> At 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision
Is the Uber self-driving system able to interact with the Volvo system? Or are they calling the Volvo safety features a second "self-driving system"? And what were the steps, Uber realizes it needs an emergency braking maneuver and sends a signal to the Volvo system which then responds with "I'm disabled" ?
I understand why the Volvo features may be disabled, but it's alarming that the self-driving system made no attempt to brake at all when it was fully "aware" it would hit someone.
The report does mention the Volvo braking features by name a few paragraphs earlier though... So I'm still not entirely sure.
- makomk 8y agoThey definitely seem to be referring to the Uber self-driving system. The sentence "At 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision (see figure 2)." has this footnote attached to it: "In Uber’s self-driving system, an emergency brake maneuver refers to a deceleration greater than 6.5 meters per second squared (m/s^2)".
- squeaky-clean 8y agoThanks, don't know how I missed that, I'll blame my phone screen haha.