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Waymo acknowledges its vehicle hit a San Francisco corner store cat
- ChrisArchitect 11mo agoMore discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45740161 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45740161 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45763267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45763267
- anon7000 11mo agoGood thing humans never ran over a beloved pet :) Jk, I think my family alone had about 5 animals die to humans driving cars. (Very rural area with a mostly quiet road. A number of these were stray cats, can’t really control where they go.) “Kill a Waymo! Save a cat“ Kill a human save a cat? The outrage is misdirected
- lm28469 11mo agoHumans don't have 360 degree lidar with 2000 times the compute power we used to send people on the moon though
- AlotOfReading 11mo agoIncredibly, you're underestimating the computational power of both autonomous vehicles and human brains. A modern smartphone is more than 2000x the Apollo Guidance computer. A Waymo is significantly more powerful than that. A human brain is tens of trillions of times more powerful than the AGC, assuming somewhat low estimates.
- lm28469 11mo agoUnless your head can spin 360 degrees at 1000hz it doesn't matter if your brain is "more powerful" in some abstract measure
- ricardobeat 11mo agoHow does that help seeing under the chassis/wheels? That extra power might mean seeing something move in your peripheral vision, intuit that it might be a cat, predict its path in space, and that it may have put itself under the car because that’s something cats usually do. The LiDar achieves nothing compared to this.
- black_13 11mo ago[dead]
- guywithahat 11mo ago> the robotaxi company has acknowledged the death but stopped short of claiming responsibility Which is probably accurate, cats are notorious for darting into traffic, and in this case the cat ran under the car while it was pulling away. While I would like autonomous vehicles to be better than us, the responsibility lies in the store owner who let their cat play in the street
- cut3 11mo agoA waymo ran over my skateboard so it makes sense they run over skateboard sized animals