I would love to hear more on the readiness level from each manufacturer. People need to realize that Uber is running their own software. GM their own. Google their own. Its not the same level of capability across the board. While Google is near the top in terms of current self driving cars, the rush to market and the…
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It hasn’t been a thing here for 15+ years. Inside of 20 years or so people had to ask for it specifically and we kept a crappy machine in the back for it.
I got out of the tire business about 15 years ago and it was already fading from upstanding tire companies.
As a former employee of Discount Tire (America’s Tire here in CA) we stopped the practice quite a while ago. There were some people who insisted they wanted it but we rarely sold any as no one actually wanted to run the machine. Near as I can tell, siping made sense on older tire technology (probably 90s and back,…
Unfortunately, I don’t think its back to the drawing board. I think its blatant ignorance of multiple people that allowed Uber (specifically, their software) on the streets. A quick look at how Google (or even Tesla) software handles a similar situation would show how pathetic Ubers is in comparison. Specifically now…
For all those who think the software couldn’t possibly react in time. Feel free to watch the video below from Google.
https://jalopnik.com/googles-self-driving-car-is-even-better-at-driving-than-1568701372
I think you are missing part of the point. Is Uber at fault? Who knows. Honestly, they probably aren’t (as much as I can’t stand that they were allowed to drive these things around) because the pedestrian could be at fault.
No braking at all. Thats the crux of the issue. The moment movement was detected heading toward the street it should have been on its brakes or swerving. Instead apparently it did nothing.
This. Everyone wants to blame the victim and exonerate the software. It never should be that way even if the lady tried to purposefully get hit by the car. Advanced (google/tesla) self driving software sees everything around it and prepares for anything. The moment movement toward the street happened the car should…
I’m amazed at the flak you get for this comment. Should she have stepped in front of a car? Of course not, and who knows if she was doing something purposeful. The point being that the system should have seen her, made a value judgement and at least attempted to stop. The computer should have made that call far faster…
according to a preliminary investigation, the vehicle was traveling at approximately 40 MPH and does not appear to have attempted to stop before hitting the pedestrian.
The owners are worse than the Corvette guys. A quick search shows the cheapest one at $3k in my area going all the way up to $23k. I dont think I would pay more than about $500 for a runner.
I would. But that doesn’t mean its a good idea. I just think XLRs are awesome.
This is amazing. People are actually proud of their Allante’s.
I was thinking a cheaper NSX. The current R8 competes with it price wise but if it was say $110-120k it would probably become the budget supercar.
I think this is a good idea. Especially if they boost it to near 500 hp and keep the cost way down. I’ve always loved the fact that Audi put the same (reliable) engine in all their cars just tuned for different purposes (see the 3.0T in the S4, A6 and A8). You still get great power (the 2.9 already makes 450 hp) and…
A look at how googles systems track pedestrians who aren’t in the street shows how the system can account for these kinds of situations. Unless she literally hid and then jumped out the software could have accounted for it.
Bah, this doesn’t seem so bad. If you have threaded the wrong chase on a expensive and time consuming part to replace (like the axel nut...) that would be a dumb wrenching mistake. This is just working tired and late.
This really makes me angry. This isn’t a blind spot in a camera against a poor backdrop that potentially made a bad machine decision. This is something that all machines will need to deal with and should be accounted for. Unless this thing was driving 50mph and the woman jumped in front of it, this seems like it…