I dislike Martin Shkreli as much as the next person.

You realize Ali G Indahouse is a parody film, right?

I agree with you in theory, but I feel more incensed by the comparison of criminals like this and the horrific treatment some prisoners are getting without being convicted. This unbalanced judicial system is shameful and oppressive, so our society’s response to this case is definitely affected by that. I think it’s…

It’s what happens when Platinum makes a third person shooter.

AN EXCELLENT FUCKING POINT

Am I the only one who’s noticed they’re not making parking spots any bigger?

Cadillac executives just kept thinking everything was OK until it wasn’t.

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.

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.

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.