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That's kinda unfair though. She was jaywalking in the dark far from any crosswalk on a main street. On average 16 pedestrians are killed every day in the United
by bdamm 6y ago
That's kinda unfair though. She was jaywalking in the dark far from any crosswalk on a main street. On average 16 pedestrians are killed every day in the United States. While the car could have done better, it's not really clear that she would have survived if the car was driven by a human.
- 05 6y agoPlease stop spreading misinformation. It was only dark in the DVR footage provided by Uber. Actual photos show it was pretty well lit. https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/uber-self-driving-tempe-crash-lighting-video-driver-rafaela-vasquez-11394567 https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/uber-self-driving-tempe... > Further, the report says that as long as Vasquez met the minimum visual acuity for a driver's license under Arizona law, and with the lighting conditions at the scene, she "could have seen and recognized that a person was walking across the road from a distance of 1700 feet away with or without the Volvo’s headlights."
- bdamm 6y agoThank you for the correction.
- jeffbee 6y agoAs long as we're correcting this story, note also that "far from any crosswalk" is also completely bogus. The place where the woman was trying to cross is where a paved path leads from a beach, and then just suddenly ends at this road. The only reason it was illegal to cross the road here is because they put up a sign. In the absence of the sign, every architectural feature of this landscape would lead a reasonable person to believe they could be here. https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4365905,-111.9426898,3a,75y,214.49h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGmI-XGwfzm2T_G8UX7Kc3g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4365905,-111.9426898,3a,75y,...
- asdff 6y agoIt's pretty abhorrent that jaywalking is even considered a factor in the eyes of the law. What if you were senile or a child or blind or mentally unwell or intoxicated or running on little sleep, and just took a stumble onto the road? Suddenly your slaughter doesn't matter because you weren't walking on some white paint at the time? I think this needs to be changed.