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Can we say with 90% certainty that a human would have saved the situation? Yes, given the misleading nature of the dashcam video I think we can. This was not a
by pja 7y ago
Can we say with 90% certainty that a human would have saved the situation?
Yes, given the misleading nature of the dashcam video I think we can. This was not a pitch dark road lit only by headlights where an obstacle "appeared out of no-where". This was a well-lit main street, with good visibility in all directions. An ordinary human driver would have had no problem identifying Elaine as a hazard and taking the appropriate avoiding action, which was simply to slow down sufficiently to allow her to cross the road.
The backup driver in the car was apparently looking at their phone or some other device and not watching the road at the time.
- keanzu 7y agoBased on the evidence you have put forth your conclusion is logical and reasonable. You have convinced me that my statement was in error.
- croon 7y ago> The backup driver in the car was apparently looking at their phone or some other device and not watching the road at the time. "According to Uber, the developmental self-driving system relies on an attentive operator to intervene if the system fails to perform appropriately during testing. In addition, the operator is responsible for monitoring diagnostic messages that appear on an interface in the center stack of the vehicle dash and tagging events of interest for subsequent review" She was looking at a device, yes, but not her phone. Uber put one person on a two person job, with predictable results.
- keanzu 7y agoAfter the crash, police obtained search warrants for Vasquez's cellphones as well as records from the video streaming services Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu. The investigation concluded that because the data showed she was streaming The Voice over Hulu at the time of the collision, and the driver-facing camera in the Volvo showed "her face appears to react and show a smirk or laugh at various points during the time she is looking down", Vasquez may have been distracted from her primary job of monitoring road and vehicle conditions. Tempe police concluded the crash was "entirely avoidable" and faulted Vasquez for her "disregard for assigned job function to intervene in a hazardous situation". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg#Distraction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg#Distr...
- croon 7y agoFair enough, you're right, she was likely looking at her phone. The rest of my point still stands though.