But Tesla and Uber need it to be ready now or they will go bankrupt!

Their money is with Uber because they bought into the hype, so of course they don’t want it to fail. The fact of the matter is Uber had every reason to overstate their capabilities to appease their stock holders. It’s pretty clear now that it’s shit and their “disrupt now ask questions later” is going to cost peoples…

You want to know why? This is the EXACT use case for autonomous driving and it failed miserably! Watch the video! No traffic...it just was dark! Aren’t these systems supposed to be able to see in the dark? FAIL...not ready for the streets and get it out of here until it is. If this wasn’t a homeless woman, Uber would…

Yesterday I was still politely requesting, as a human, for you to speak for yourself. Today you can fuck right off. Then, fuck off again and keep fucking off until you come full circle to where you started. Then.... Fuck off.

You literally cannot make autonomous car testing safe. Thats the entire point of testing. There are a billion variables unable to be replicated in any controlled setting. We are all test dummies until technology catches up with ambition or we realize that effective driver training will always trump computer algorithms…

I have a solution! Stop all this autonomous car bullshit.

We.
Don’t.
Need.
It.

Could it have completely avoided an accident? Maybe not, but by all accounts it appears to have hit her at full speed. Even a human watching that road would have done some level of breaking before hitting her. That didn’t happen because the guy did what most people do when given semi-autonomous cars, which is stop…

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.

Speaking as a human, I’ll kindly request you speak only for yourself.

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

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.

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.

Seriously.

The best one I have heard is that we will have achieved reliable autonomous cars when they can operate reliably in Moscow, in winter. I think a lot of us would add ( insert My City here). Just coming to work today in wet icy spring weather, rutted roads, no lines, two guys in front of me rolled thru stop signs and…

The real question is why do we need this? I know it could help people with limited mobility, the elderly, etc., but I don’t think that’s who the companies have in mind.

You know, I’m coming back to this article because it’s just pissing me off- so mission accomplished I suppose. This is the same classic bullshit Gawker clickbait stuff (“The Brazil Nut is The Best Nut,” etc.) they used to pull. Can’t you at least start to pretend to be a reputable auto news blog? You rely on this…

...and in conclusion, here’s another article to make you question the credibility of a Jalopnik writer.

Yep. How does one get a job writing loosely about cars and have zero understanding that each car/trans is different. My S2000 with its high redline and short gearing to take advantage of it would be a bear to drive long distances in without a 6th, or the gearing would be too tall and I’d fall out of VTEC with each…

Because not everyone has 1000 hp?

Who needs two cruising gears? I humbly submit: no one.