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“The woman got dragged 20feet” With respect this part is not clear. Only that the woman moved 20feet. The DMV has not made clear whether she moved 20feet from
by pj_mukh 3y ago
“The woman got dragged 20feet”
With respect this part is not clear. Only that the woman moved 20feet.
The DMV has not made clear whether she moved 20feet from the location of original Collision (ie with the human driver) or she was dragged 20feet as the cruise car kept driving. They’ve let the audience fill in the blanks and we’ve collectively come to the more exciting conclusion.
- darkerside 3y agoI'm pretty sure Cruise's statement worded this intentionally vaguely, and it's natural to assume they are trying to gloss over their responsibility in the most horrific part of the story.
- KennyBlanken 3y agoThey had the balls to write "pulling the individual forward"
- skywhopper 3y agoThe Cruise statement is what mentions "pulling the pedestrian forward 20 feet" so it's clear she was dragged for at least that distance.
- pj_mukh 3y agoIt’s so painfully obvious to me that the solution here is to not having flying humans because of bad drivers that hit and run and not “actually let’s ban autonomous driving” (the city will inevitably come after Waymo next)
- jfim 3y agoWhy not both? We shouldn't have flying humans, nor cars rolling over and dragging people.
- pj_mukh 3y agoThe first problem is much harder to solve, the second one only happens because of the first. The city elected to do the easy useless thing first and is patting themselves in the back (people are still gonna be flying due to shitty human drivers tomorrow). This is a problem.
- scarmig 3y agoIt's also worthwhile to point out that, although in this case the bad human driver was the immediate cause of the accident, at scale this will happen with some frequency, either from bad human drivers, bugs in the software or hardware, or just weird situations. The entire point of AVs is that these can also be corrected at scale: people who make excuses for the failure are removing the paramount incentive to make AVs as near to perfect as possible.