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This is a black truck, facing sideways in a lane, with no reflective surfaces of any kind, at night. Why is it surprising that a car hit it?
by nwvg_7257 5y ago
This is a black truck, facing sideways in a lane, with no reflective surfaces of any kind, at night. Why is it surprising that a car hit it?
- skhr0680 5y agoI counted three seconds from noticing the truck to hitting it. Three seconds of braking is a lot more than zero
- BitwiseFool 5y agoDevil's Advocate: You already knew what to look for* when you watched the video. I would say that a typical driver in the same scenario certainly wouldn't have had nearly as much of three seconds between noticing and collision. Edit: *Specifically, to be on the lookout for a black sideways truck on an unlit road directly in ahead of where the car is traveling.
- skhr0680 5y agoIf a kid running out to get their ball is a the standard example of a hazard that drivers should always be expecting on a residential road, I think a broken down vehicle is the standard example for a highway. Maybe a human could have braked even a little bit, but the autopilot didn’t brake at all. That’s a problem for advocates for it
- mikhailt 5y agoOkay, now imagine you're driving home after a long day at work and it is dark; you still think you will react fast enough?
- lab14 5y agoThis specific car has multiple laser vision cameras that detect objects from long distances, supposedly even at night.
- MPSimmons 5y agoWhat laser system do you think Teslas have?
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoTesla shouldn't have any. Waymo is the company banking on Lidar.
- vb6sp6 5y agoop is slightly confused on terminology. It does not have lasers\lidar but some models do have sensors such as the ars4-b. Other models use cameras only
- solarkraft 5y agoElon Musk is adamant about but needing such systems because "after all, humans are fine without them as well". I don't know what systems the current hardware has, but am sure there's no LIDAR.
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- davesque 5y agoBecause the car had radar. There are plenty of other car brands that ship similar emergency breaking features that wouldn't have missed this. Also, I, as a human viewing a video with crappy color balance (much inferior to human night vision), noticed the car long before it was struck. At least I would have begun breaking before hitting the car.