The “no pedestrian zone” is part of a complex set of causes and effects. Since it’s a no pedestrian zone, it has a higher speed limit posted A higher speed li

The “no pedestrian zone” is part of a complex set of causes and effects. Since it’s a no pedestrian zone, it has a higher speed limit posted A higher speed limit causes a linear reduction in detection time, a sensor that detects a pedestrian 2 second away at 20mph will detects a pedestrian 1 second away at 40mph Braking distance and impact energy are both quadratic and that’s part of how/why speed limits are defined There are a lot of engineering issues that will arise from the need to cope with people violating limits and restrictions around autonomous vehicles. I’m not defending uber here btw, they definitely jumped the gun deploying the system as described, just thinking out loud. There are decades of crashes that went into the driving code and road regulations, which humans kinda understand by relating to road design and getting cues from the environment that ais will need to learn