Show me one of these pictures, please? And keep in mind, we’re not talking about the location of reverse here. You may want to look at that picture again.

I don’t know about where you are, but where I live the exact scenario you described is fairly common. I have yet to hit someone but I’ve been closer than I would like.

Maybe. Some people purposely slow down when they see pedestrians change direction while on the sidewalk. This is especially true in residential areas where you see kids playing out front. You never know if one of them decides it will be a good idea to dart out into the road.

How much testing is enough testing? Do you believe they have done enough controlled testing? I honestly don’t know how much they have done in a controlled environment, but I somehow don’t think it has been enough.

I hope Uber resumes after a full and public analysis of the incident, regardless of how quickly it happens. Responsible engineering means taking time to do things right.

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.

Predictions:

I don’t think driverless tech can account for the stupidity and unpredictability of man. Sounds like the woman unexpectedly walked into the street not at a crosswalk. Odds are she would have been killed by a human driver too.

The Smoking Tire is good because of Zack’s humor and the guests. Matt still comes off like a tool sometimes. I am sure he is a nice guy if you get to know him, but he shits on things for no reason a lot. The podcast has taken a serious dive since he started videoblogging all of them on youtube. He spends a lot of time…

I am with Tom, because it is probably the most logical buy. It will be cheap-ish to run, cheap to insure, and not that thirsty on gas, more room than the versa or the fit, i think, and FWD should make it less of a problem in snow than RWD.

I’m not being a Luddite, but I followed the early DARPA challenges and saw the issues there. Add in manufacturing problems( our F450 SuperDuty has had the main computer replaced once, then the wiring harness, now it went totally dead again and is back in the shop ). I’m simply noting that the real world has billions…

I haven’t been around them so I wouldn’t know. A couple other comments on this article seem to disagree, tho.

I’m certainly not arguing that there are people who shouldn’t be driving. I spent hours mulling over recognition software is what I’m saying. I have been behind a truck, looked at the ropes securing the load and watched items lift slightly before becoming airborne. I was already braking and therefore didn’t get hit by…

+ for potrero hill

I still very much doubt that will happen in the next 15 years. I’m convinced the tech is going to stagnate on level 4 so that companies don’t have to take the blame for when things go wrong.

Let’s encourage this so companies realise that a lot of people don’t want driverless cars.

My experience with Cruise driverless cars in the Mission district of San Francisco is that they are a fucking menace. Last week, one kept randomly stopping in the middle of the street, then accelerating quickly to the speed limit, and then for no reason rapidly slowing down again. I’m guessing that the engineers were…

And how will that let Uber exploit the drivers?

Hmm. Uber thinks it’s smarter than MIT, eh?

This is more or less the same conclusion I came to years ago.