“if you drive intoxicated but you keep attention of what is going on you will immediately feel when the car is starting to do the wrong thing and gently guide it back. No drama or stress. I’ve been doing this for several months” as said every drunk driver ever.

It does serve a useful purpose and does reduce the drivers workload and fatigue

To be fair most of the crowd here is blaming Tesla, it’s just a few individuals that are trying to spin some BS about “autopilot” semantics to put it on the driver.

New name suggestion: “I’m feeling lucky” mode.

Because car drivers are not trained and monitored professionals as opposed to plane or train operators.

This a really misguided assumption.

Indeed, any half decent company is trying its to creat its own autonomous car because really no decent carmaker wants to be relegated as a subcontractor... Although they probably will be.

Yes it is bound to happen again and again but it should not happen in a situation like that where AV strong points should shine: no distraction and ability to “see” beyond visible spectrum.

They asked the guy that writes their statements about police shootings.

Except they really can’t stay at full attention for all that time. Hell even an active driver might look away for a fairly long amount of time.

That’s gratuitous assumption.

38mph used to be the standard urban speed in many places. If you can’t safely drive at that speed you should probably just give up.

Agree although video is misleading. An attentive driver would probably have spotted her earlier than it looks. Still not sure it would have changed the outcome.

Yeah she hadn’ t jumped into the trajectory, she already had crossed a lane, at pedestrian speed, so they can’t pretend it was picked as being on the sidewalk.

All manufacturers have mentioned that after a while safety drivers tend to become over confident and loose attention. Uber should have factored that in by having two drivers or similar measures.

Well I guess those systems are already mixing decisions from a bunch of parallel systems so...

Even if you can’t avoid an obstacle you should always try to brake, this will significantly reduce severity of impact. It doesn’t seem the vehicle braked at all.

Well this is debatable. I’ve been in the very same type of situation (except the pedestrian was -thank god- on the side of the road, wearing dark clothes, and I only barely avoided him. Had he attempted to cross I would probably have hit him. And as a jury I would probably had acquitted myself, because I could only…

That’s an interesting take but you can’t get colder than ice temperature you started with. My view on this was that by adding salt you were forcing fusion of ice, that require heat, and thus pumping heat out of the water.

People are starting to experience reboot fatigue.