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Dealing with people on freeways is the kind of edge case humans aren’t good at but self driving cars have zero excuses. It’s a common enough situation that som
by Retric 2y ago
Dealing with people on freeways is the kind of edge case humans aren’t good at but self driving cars have zero excuses. It’s a common enough situation that someone will exit a vehicle after a collision to make it a very predictable edge case.
Remember all of the bad press Uber got when a pedestrian was struck and killed walking their bike across the middle of a street at night? People are going to be on limited access freeways and these systems need to be able to deal with it. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54175359 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54175359
- potato3732842 2y agoI'd make the argument that people are very good at dealing with random things that shouldn't be on freeways as long as they don't coincide with blinding sun or other visual impairment. Tesla had a long standing issue detecting partial lane obstructions. I wonder if the logic around that has anything to do with this.
- Retric 2y ago17 percent of pedestrian fatalities occur on freeways. Considering how rarely pedestrians are on freeways that suggests to me people aren’t very good at noticing them in time to stop / avoid them. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/06/09/why-20-of-pedestrians-deaths-are-on-freeways-and-how-we-stop-that https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/06/09/why-20-of-pedestrians...
- Arn_Thor 2y agoThat, and/or freeway speeds make the situation inherently more dangerous. When the traffic flows freeway speeds are fine but if a freeway-speed car has to handle a stationary object…problem.
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