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What’s that quote about the last 20% of the work taking 80% of the effort? This crash seems to be the result of several cases not being handled correctly, or a
by munmaek 7y ago
What’s that quote about the last 20% of the work taking 80% of the effort?
This crash seems to be the result of several cases not being handled correctly, or at all.
1. Pedestrian crossing -not- at a crosswalk, aka jaywalking
2. Objects tagged as “Unknown” don’t have their path tracked.
By the time the car saw an “unknown object” (the woman) directly in its trajectory it was too late (1.2s before impact).
Why was there no system for a person jaywalking? That’s extremely common.
Why don’t “Unknown” objects get stored and individually have their trajectories tracked? Hello?
Programmers need to start going to jail.
- pluma 7y agoNot necessarily the programmers. There'll always be some people who are easily enough to manipulate to write this kind of code. But those making the decision to ship this and sign off on it definitely should face criminal negligence charges.
- munmaek 7y agoOne can only claim ignorance for so long. They know what they’re programming. But yes, managers and the like involved should also be going to jail. This cavalier, negligent attitude needs to be dealt with yesterday.
- brenden2 7y agoPareto principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
- Sohcahtoa82 7y ago> Why don’t “Unknown” objects get stored and individually have their trajectories tracked? Hello? Because what if that "unknown" object is just a plastic bag blowing in the wind? People would get mighty annoyed very quickly if emergency braking kicked in for every piece of garbage blowing onto the road.
- TallGuyShort 7y ago>> if emergency braking kicked in for every piece of garbage blowing onto the road Yeah, cases like that might make people wonder about the correctness of the self-driving computer.