Question for someone who isn’t an armchair mechanic like most of us here, but actually Knows Their Shit:

What is fucked here? Just the turbo? More?

Former Army brat and US Marine here.

This is not the first time we’ve seen that angle. At least the previous one had it as well.

You cannot imagine how amused I am you saw something I didn’t, based upon usernames.

welp... at least that wrapped up thingy probably wasnt anything expensive...

Seriously. After the new nightmare stare Prius and the pre-crashed Camry, this is a refreshing surprise.

Am I in the minority thinking that this is actually a pretty cool little car? I mean I probably still would get a Civic Hatch or Impreza Hatch over it but...its a good third option?

That’s it. Toyota finally did it. They made a Corolla that I’m actually interested in/excited for.

It should be and it should’ve picked up a person. This is why none of this makes any fucking sense. How can a system that expensive and sophisticated not be able to do the most important job it was designed to do in the first place.

Am I the only one who thinks this EXACT scenario should be test number fucking one? If the system can’t handle this....

the other issue in addition to this is what looks like an over-reliance on the system—it’s not just that he car itself wasn’t sufficient, it was that the person was putting more trust in it than it deserved, something we’re seeing time and time again with this tech.

Well I suspect people are gonna crucify the driver, but I bet anybody would space out after riding around for an hour or two without touching the controls.

It’s supposed to have LIDAR or similar sensors which detect obstacles in front of it - whether or not they’re illuminated. Part of the point of these autonomous vehicles is that they’re supposed to have better ways to detect potential problems than a human driver, and this shows that wasn’t the case.

Unavoidable my ass! Having found the video, if these self driving cars are supposed to have such sophisticated sensors it should totally have been able to detect her in time to avoid her, or at least make an attempt.

I thought it would be a gimmick and ended up using it every day multiple times a day.

Disregard, I’m slower than slow today...

The point is that self-driving technology has to be better than a human.

Yeah, sorry, no. That system is calculating vectors for everything around it, and was no doubt aware of the victim’s position, direction and velocity. The same as it would be if you were there standing on the curb at the time. If you had been on that curb and decided to start moving into the path of the car, there’s…

yeah but this line is just lazy journalism: “Focusing on whether Herzberg stepped in front of the car sidesteps key, arguably more important questions that’s likely the focus of investigators: Why didn’t Uber’s technology catch Herzberg before it was too late and slow down? And why didn’t the safety operator at the…

I will take an autonomous vehicle that is as good as a fully focused human driver all day long. Since most people on the road can’t drive for 15mins without making 4 Instagram posts and responding to 36 texts while eating two big macs...