For normal people that is the lucky shot of their life. For Crosby that’s a normal Thursday afternoon.

FRIENDZONED.

Clearly on her phone. What an ass. Your job is to sit here and look at the road...too hard. Typical of the Uber drivers I frequently get.

Yes, the “driver” should have had his eyes on the road, and this crash was definitely avoidable, and the sensors should have recognized her, but...does the bicyclist have zero sense of self-preservation? Did she not see / hear / feel that car bearing down on her?

I agree that the lighting was extremely poor and agree that the victim was almost impossible to see with the human eye until just before she was struck by the car.

Yes it is bound to happen again and again but it should not happen in a situation like that where AV strong points should shine: no distraction and ability to “see” beyond visible spectrum.

There’s definitely a question as to why the imaging and obstacle detection system either did not detect the pedestrian or did not correctly respond to her.

I feel like the video footage is also doctored for contrast to make the pedestrian completely invisible. Look at the spot here and the line I made.

You raise an interesting point about the safety driver. While paying better attention obviously could’ve helped in this situation, it seems like any safety driver could have issues reacting to an emergency. Are their hands on the wheel? Are they complacent because the car is doing the driving for them? How do they…

Oh heellll nooo!

As a motorist of 25 years I’m damn certain I would’ve seen and avoided this person. This pedestrian AND bicycle is so far out in the lane the only reason you’d miss them is if you were speeding beyond the capability of your vision OR... you’re fucking looking down texting or whatever.

I’ve avoided cats…

That appeared to be a clear road, dry, no traffic, no obstructions. These were about the ideal conditions for the sensor suite to spot someone. The lidar, radar and multispectral cameras (near-IR and visible light) all failed to pick up the woman in the road. Uber can’t use weather, traffic, speed, road conditions or…

Yet more proof that Uber has been cutting corners with their driverless tech, which isn’t really surprising given that Levandowski said that they needed to prioritize releasing over safety. This would have been trivial for LIDAR to catch, she was a medium sized moving object in the middle of an empty road.

Seems pretty obvious she was looking at her phone. She even smiled at something just before she looked up.

Maybe this sounds ridiculous but part of me thinks that was enough time for a human to swerve left if they were actually looking forward. Unless the frame rate makes it look slower than it actually is. This autonomous tech is garbage from what I can see in this video.

If the Uber can’t pick up a pedestrian in what looks like a near optimal night vision test scene, it shouldn’t be allowed on the roads.

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

One takeaway from this is to never take police at their word (trust but verify?). The description from the police chief after the incident does not match at all what the video reveals.

Would Jobs say ‘fuck it’ and give in? He’d rather push his HW developers off the roof of the spaceship.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d take a slim bezel at the top over the stupid notch. It’s like the flat tire on the original Moto watch, an obvious shortcoming that only reinforces itself over time. Every time you look at it, you think “yeah, Apple couldn’t figure out a way around it, so they just said Fuck It and put in a…

Maybe they will innovate something called a removable battery, so that I can carry a couple extra for a weekend trip.