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Changes quite a bit with getting sideswiped while walking around the roadway, my #1 fear as a pedestrian. Looked up some statistics and this is more common than
by benatkin 5y ago
Changes quite a bit with getting sideswiped while walking around the roadway, my #1 fear as a pedestrian. Looked up some statistics and this is more common than getting hit while crossing the street. Two more things to figure out though:
- How often is an accident while walking along the roadway getting sideswiped, instead of just a full-on crash
- The equivalent of being run over by a car doesn't happen when falling 30 feet. I wonder how much this accounts for getting hurt as a pedestrian.
This is just what I thought of, it is also a threat to cars, but that would be offset more by the velocity of the car that got hit than it would be by the velocity of a pedestrian. (For example, a car that is going 25mph and gets rear-ended by a car going 30mph)
Also there is often hitting the brakes before collision. So it will be slower sometimes.
- silisili 5y agoDo these cars have billboards or indicators of some kind? If not, they really should. In my town I wait for cars to stop before crossing, and make eye contact or get a friendly wave to let me know they see me. If a driverless car just stops, I don't feel comfortable walking in front of it if there's no indication that it sees me. How could that be solved?
- smilekzs 5y agoDrive.AI, before they went defunkt, had LED billboards not unlike what you described. It was a gimmick that didn't take off in the rest of the industry due to the universal presence of a safety driver.
- fitzie 5y agothey should have some sort of hazard like flash when they are stopped for an obstruction like humans in the roadway. that would also reduce the rear end situation where they are unreasonably stopped in traffic due to crappy software.
- ummonk 5y agoAre you referring to walking on the sidewalk or on the street?