If I’m ‘fixated’ on anything, it’s the facts and circumstances of this particular collision. The truck was backing into a loading bay perpendicular to the lane of travel that the AV was occupying. The AV got too close, and didn’t yield room to the truck that was trying to execute a reverse/turn maneuver, so as to…

Last Clear Chance doctrine. Google it. Large vehicle drivers cannot always see everything in their close proximity. Most intelligent drivers know this, and give them a wide berth, and when they can see their is clear and present danger of a collision, a person not suffering any mental deficiencies will quickly move…

If you’re in a lane of travel, trying to make forward progress, and you’re not looking ahead of you, through your fucking windshield, then you’re a negligent operator. If you are looking forward (an AV is always looking in all directions, presumably making it safer than a human), and you do not reverse to avoid a…

“I’m sure their safety margins are large”

I want to see Sabine drive that car on a good day. I bet she takes 3 seconds off that time...

White minivans are the bane of all highway travel. They are driven almost exclusively by people who believe they are meant to travel the speed limit or less in the left lane (“it’s called the speed LIMIT” they’ll tell you “it doesn’t mean you HAVE to go THAT fast”).

That doctrine is absolutely still in use.

My son and I were almost crushed between a truck and an RV by the drunk driver of the RV. I saw the imminent collision and drove off the shoulder and hit a reflective marker and a rock, causing about $2k in damage to my car. The RV swerved at the last second and avoided the truck in front of me. I immediately called…

And while the law is unsettled on autonomous vehicles, the liability may fall on both the owner of the vehicle and the engineers, if not exclusively on the engineers.

It has sensors - most vehicles have had parking sensors for over a decade - which easily allow the vehicle to detect the distance remaining to impact to within less than a foot. We’ve had ‘self-parking’ cars for years.

You are either an imbicile, or you simply understand nothing about the law. There is criminal law, and tort law, for starters. Warm up your googley keyboard, wipe off your monitor, and start reading.

It’s just unfathomable that they haven’t included this in the programming. They have all the sensors (have for over a decade) to allow the car to safely reverse to avoid a collision. While certain types of situational awareness may be harder than others, this was by all accounts a very simple situation that should…

Silly boy. If you only needed 5 feet to back up, and you had twenty, and you had time, but didn’t even try...? You share the fault. Add to that, you are a robot, with distance measuring sensors that allow you to measure the distance between you and everything else in the physical world down to the inch? You’re really,…

Poor thing. You’ve never been overseas, have you...

Ooooh. You poor. sensitive. little. snowflake.

20 ft is longer than a Suburban. It’s most likely plenty of room to get out of the truck’s way, and the point of the law is: You have to make a reasonable effort.

If 20 ft isn’t enough space for you to comfortably back up, you have NO business driving a car. Moreover, if you’re a robot car with a laser/sonar measuring…

Read this before you get back in your douche canoe, you stupid cunt. It’s written in layman’s terms specifically for cunts like yourself.

Did you know insurance companies go to court? I bet you didn’t. It’s ok, I’m not surprised. You don’t seem to know much of anything at all.

I have no idea how well-paid you are, what your net worth is, or how many pimples have cleared from your complexion by now, but I’m certainly a better friend and citizen than you. I’d bet I’ve got more going for me than you financially, too.

If it’s in front of you, and you’re the driver of the vehicle (or the owner/programmer) then you have a duty to avoid it. Last Clear Chance. Period.