The safety driver was doing something else, the car might have warned him that input was needed, and in the time between the two, the driver couldn’t take in everything going on and couldn’t react appropriately.
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I also drive with my foot off the brake pedal. I don’t think “regain control” is an issue.
“First, hard rules don’t work for autonomous cars”
From viewing the videos, “it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway,” [Tempe Police Chief] Moir said.
“Sunday’s fatal crash between an Uber self-driving test car anda pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, was the greatest fear of autonomous driving”
Because it doesn’t fall asleep, it doesn’t drive drunk, it doesn’t text, drive the wrong-way on a one-way, it doesn’t speed (much) and it can detect a object 360-degrees over 200 times per second.
The point is that self-driving technology has to be better than a human.
Some of us know :
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“this shows that Uber’s handling of autonomy has been reckless”
“Didn’t you notice that you had one of the nuts left over?”
Not to mention - the battery will be (mostly) recharged after the trip back down.
“According to the local ABC television affiliate, the self-driving vehicle was in autonomous mode and there was an operator behind the wheel when it struck a woman walking outside of a crosswalk early Monday morning.”
“Shouldn’t testing be done in a far more isolated environment? You know, like where innocent people won’t be in jeopardy of being killed.”
Funny it doesn’t mention the main trick to make closer people look taller - used by both Zuckerberg and in this article - to shoot with the camera at waist-height.
It’s 19.5% loss.
It takes only 300 $15k cars along with each $4M hyper car to bring the average down below $30k. And only 7 $15k cars along with each $100k car.
Fancy Kristen always gets a driver with her cars.
At least they are not changing their prediction.