Well that would make his opinion null and void. People from the UK don’t even know how to correctly pronounce the letter z or spell the word color. 

I’m not saying a film has to pass the Bechdel Test to be good, great, or even worth your time;

How does Nanette pass the test? It’s a stand-up show featuring one real person and no “characters,” so it doesn’t even make it to the second part of the rule.

No. If any company wants to implement an autonomous system the first PRIORITY should be pedestrian avoidance. Period. Whatever technical elements are necessary up to that point aren’t my problem or especially not the general public’s.

Systems like this are vastly more complicated than they look like to someone not familiar with how they work.

Video is not a representation of the actual light visibility situation. There are plenty of people, myself included, who dodge animals on rural roads in ambient darkness.

You’re way overestimating the utility of a low-resolution video taken at night.

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

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.

And yet, they’re starting to roll out buses without drivers, steering wheels or brake pedals. While the tech has yet to be proven. And soon they’ll want to move to big rigs as well.

the other issue in addition to this is what looks like an over-reliance on the system—it’s not just that he car itself wasn’t sufficient, it was that the person was putting more trust in it than it deserved, something we’re seeing time and time again with this tech.

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.

It’s supposed to have LIDAR or similar sensors which detect obstacles in front of it - whether or not they’re illuminated. Part of the point of these autonomous vehicles is that they’re supposed to have better ways to detect potential problems than a human driver, and this shows that wasn’t the case.

But that’s the thing: yes, the driver should have been paying attention, but the car should have been able to see her first. Which it did not.

And I have to say, while she didn’t “dart out” into the road, she was wearing black with no lights or reflectors on a dark stretch of highway. I think that the driver (operator?) should have been paying more attention but I’m not sure it would have done much good. You can watch the video, and it’s almost impossible to…

Because the Dirty on my keyboard is my dirt, where the dirt on a public toilet is some other dirty hobo’s dirt.

It kiiiiind of feels like a very thinly veiled liberal attempt to say “see, right-wingers? We will benefit from this and you wont! Nyah!”

I always suggest calling first.

A reminder that if the dog is wearing a vest or a leather harness, do not pet it, do not talk to it, do not offer it food, and, in most cases, don’t ask to pet it. They are working and distraction can be dangerous for their handler.