The sensors detect space down to the inch. It also has a horn. So, not only does it have the capacity to safely reverse, it has the capacity to honk. A human would have done one or both of those things. A fucking Roomba can do those things.
The AV did neither. In the future, I assure you, AV’s will do BOTH, and more.
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You should change your name to ‘ThatGuy’.
Someone’s never been to Amsterdam.
I suppose if you can get a semi to 60 in five seconds, you can get a $250k sports car there in about 2... This begs the obvious: How fast can you get a semi full of these sports cars to 60?
The insurer of the truck could subrogate against the AV, which, if anyone in the AV had been injured, might well have happened.
How about writing a complete sentence? Would it be too much for you?
I would think they need to create swappable batteries and battery depots/networks for trucks, particularly long-haul trucks, to really ever switch to electric. Otherwise the market would seem to be smaller trucks, or trucks operating for specific operators where the company can help build out the infrastructure (I.e.…
Nope. It’s not ‘racism’. It’s a cultural difference, attributable not to a skin color or minor genetic difference, as would be attributed to ‘race’, but to the culture of people from China. And I never said anything about their driving - just their habit of ignoring any sense of personal space. Since you brought it…
If anything, the AV owner/programmers would have to prove that the truck driver would have willfully ignored a honking horn, and that a reasonable person would not have reversed a car in the AV’s position, under the circumstances.
You’re completely wrong about driving, but maybe you’re a chinese driver, which might explain that observation too, I guess. And I gave you an explanation for ‘chinese levels’. It’s a valid observation.
Chinese people, from China, have almost no sense of ‘personal space’. What would be considered ‘too close’ in pretty much anywhere in the western world goes completely unobserved by most native Chinese people. We have a lot of tourists from the Chinese mainland where I live, and it is the norm to see them crowd on top…
Come again, Francis?
If there was a semi backing up, then the traffic to the rear of the AV was either stopped or coming to a stop. It’s what humans do when they see fifty feet of truck maneuvering backwards into a perpendicular loading bay.
What are you, twelve? The decision not to subrogate is not informative of the validity of the Last Chance Doctrine. Good God...
The rental car companies in the UK, particularly norther UK, replace passenger side mirrors by the pallet load due to the narrow roads, centuries old rock walls, and drivers who drive on the other side of much larger roads. I’m not sure how much those extra inches help, but I’m sure they do...
What? No ring time? It’s probably not even fast in a straight line /s
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…