I kind of agree here—this is a repeated problem with the roll out of driverless and driver-assistance tech. The way we have things going now may be insufficient.

Ok, so the based on the video, it looks like the headlights didn’t illuminate her until about 3 nanoseconds before the time of impact. No chance any human could have brakes/swerved in time.

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.

...How? She’s basically invisible until she’s within 20ft of a car on a 45MPH road. There’s no way in hell it’s stopping in time, and I’m not sure if it’s able to “panic swerve” around her in time.

If you have the money and patience for repairs, yes.

Practically anything will these days.

Stop saying “a self-driving Uber vehicle killed a pedestrian”. It is misleading. It is like saying an Amtrak train killed the math student when it was the student who jumped in front of the express train to end his own life.

There was also a human on the sidewalk equally capable of staying on the sidewalk...

For one, it sounds like on-board video confirms that the pedestrian unexpectedly swan dived into the road from between some parked cars.

Everyone is ripping on the computer, but there was a human on board equally as capable of applying the brakes and also failed to do so. I wouldn’t mind knowing why.

Pedestrian was also a cyclist too, soooooooo....

6,000 pedestrians were killed in 2016 in the USA and the number is rising thanks to distracted drivers and pedestrians. The Uber accident was someone not crossing at a crosswalk. Unfortunate how this will be overblown.

I think autonomous vehicles will weather this one pretty much okay, mainly because the industry got lucky and it was Uber who killed the pedestrian. It is a company with a reputation for being shitty and cutting corners, so it won’t have the same shock value in the minds of the average American if Tesla, Google, or…

Progress on autonomous vehicles will likely get set back, but on the flip side, how many pedestrians were hit yesterday by people driving their own cars?

Nothing but respect for MY Mitsubishi Eclipse.

She still ugly

Torque split on a GSX was 50/50, and it didn’t suffer from torque steer. It also handled better due to a rear suspension design that negated a lot of understeer, . A 1991 GSX tested by Motor Trend pulled .84g on the skidpad, while a 2006 Eclipse GT managed .79g.

But is it more fun to drive? That generation was known to have terrible torquesteer.

Handles like the wrong wheel drive understeer monkey it is. The GSX owner could add more boost.

Christ, I wonder what generic marketing bullshit generator they are using.