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I guess "Bus-driver orders self-driving bus forward at stop, striking visually impaired Paralympian disguised as able-bodied person", just doesn't have the same
by moron4hire 5y ago
I guess "Bus-driver orders self-driving bus forward at stop, striking visually impaired Paralympian disguised as able-bodied person", just doesn't have the same ring.
It's difficult to see how this could at all be Toyota's fault. The system stopped at the crosswalk correctly. The pedestrian was apparently not carrying any visually recognizable means to identify them as sight-impaired. There was even a crossing guard who also did not stop the pedestrian from aimlessly wandering into the intersection.
Is the problem actually that the electric busses are too quiet and the pedestrian didn't realize it was there? I know some cities have had problems with this, but I thought installing beeper-devices on electric busses was pretty standard by now. Seems like the sort of mistake that a podunk town in bumble-fuck nowhere would make, not something that would happen in Tokyo.
I'm assuming this person is used to walking around without a cane and has thus far managed without incident. Or maybe he's getting hit by cars all the time and this is the first we're hearing about it because it was an automated vehicle.
Regardless, there are a dozen scenarios that are more likely than anything being done by anyone involved with the bus, driving it, supervising it, or manufacturing it.
- phreeza 5y agoPlease not more beepers. Some low level white noise is much less intrusive and easier to localize.
- jsight 5y agoSome vehicles use a white noise that sounds almost like the vehicle fans. I think this works pretty well without filling the area with useless beeps.
- mrlonglong 5y agoMy BMW beeps rather angrily if you dare to walk behind it whilst I am reversing. It's neat.
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago>It's difficult to see how this could at all be Toyota's fault You're not trying very hard. "Skittish AI stops for flagrantly false positives so frequently it trains the operators to override it at the drop of a hat" is a pretty common failure mode for automated systems.