Posted on 03/21/2018 5:24:49 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
This video shows an Uber driver that is at least 30% at fault in this incident. Things would have been far better for Uber and the driver if the person had been focusing on the road instead of looking down at something else in the car for long stretches.
Was she a democrat?
“Remember the points system we used to use when we were young and dumb?”
I do, lol. Mohammedans were at the top of the points list. ;)
“I think both Uber and “driverless” cars are in serious trouble here.”
So are stupid pedestrians.
Even Fox News has the video.
I agree, the lady standing sideways with a bike in the middle of a multi-lane road in pitch dark is who is to blame in my book. Was she even wearing appropriate reflective safety tape? From what I can tell from the video she was not. I am not a fan of self driving cars but this lady would likely have been hit with even a god driver behind the wheel.
Here’s the law in Arizona. The pedestrian is at fault outside of a crosswalk.
Arizona: Vehicles must yield the right-of-way to pedestrians within a crosswalk that are in the same half of the roadway as the vehicle or when a pedestrian is approaching closely enough from the opposite side of the roadway to constitute a danger. Pedestrians may not suddenly leave the curb and enter a crosswalk into the path of a moving vehicle that is so close the vehicle is unable to yield. Pedestrians must yield the right-of-way to vehicles when crossing outside of a marked crosswalk or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection. Where traffic control devices are in operation, pedestrians may only cross between two adjacent intersections in a marked crosswalk.
So who is going to be charged with murder???
the technology of the self driving car does not need reflective tape
Since no murder occurred, I’m guessing no one. I wouldn’t even call this a homicide.
Probably the pedestrian did not hear the electric car.
6000 pedestrians killed last year. That’s more than two World Trade Center attacks worth every year.
Question isn’t whether idiots will always step in front of cars.
Over 30,000 vehicle related fatalities per year, over 2 million injuries. Almost entirely due to inattentive humans, or humans operating beyond the limits of the vehicle (and/or themselves).
I look forward to the automating of the my 9 mile, six turn commute to work. A self driving car will give me back at least an hour each day to read, or even work. I can’t wait to relinquish the mundanity. I really look forward to not having to worry about being run into by the person behind me that is fiddling with his radio, or phone, or otherwise occupied.
I look forward to millions of bad drivers becoming riders.
I saw the vid on the news and it scared me. If it were me driving I might have hit that woman.
Yet I’m not sure because the camera shows only the front view. Human eyes tend to be more active and might have seen her sooner in order to HIT the brakes.
Other observation is that bicyclists think they own the road. No rules apply to them. She wasn’t even looking at the uncoming car! as if she expected it to act as if a human was driving.
Still, as a driver, the vid scares me.
1. Rafaela may be a woman’s name, but women don’t have 5:00 shadows.
2. The opportune word is “victom”. It appears that she comes out of a black region, but your not recognizing that it was headlights approaching her that makes it appear that way. It is realistic and much depends on the quality of the headlights and the speed the car is traveling at.
3. A driver, assuming they’re paying attention, would definitely have seen it coming and slowed down.
4. Artificial drivers (camera in a robotic car), at such an early stage in development, may not.
5. People have the senses to anticipate, see, know when they’re driving too fast for their headlights or conditions. People have judgement.
6. Sensors do not.
7. I hope that neither you nor anyone else gets to be test case #2 in this experiment unless they’re willing to be the guinea pig.
Yep, agreed.
Jaywalking isnt some heinous crime and, watching the video, I could have avoided killing her while eating fries with one hand.
The issue is that these very imperfect machines - that cannot be afforded by 2/3rds of Americans - are dangerous AND UNNECESSARY.
What is it with these weirdo autonomous car worshippers who get all butt hurt by the fact that untested and un-ready technology just killed someone for no reason? They blame the victim(?) and then argue that people also hit people as if that makes it all ok. Progress!! Lol
Some people just cant handle the horrors of freedom.
(40 in a 45.... jesus lol)
Ouch!
On my iPhone it was hard to tell if there was a driver.
I’m not so sure the video is doctored. One of the YouTube viewer comments says most dashboard cameras like that don’t pick up light very well in low-light conditions, and therefore this may not accurately show what the driver was looking at.
It was dark, there was no cross-traffic, and the human driver had no reason to expect that anything would appear in front of her car. Many people will allow their attention to wander in that situation. They just monitor the cars in front of them and start daydreaming.
The machine has no excuse. The lidar definitely should have picked up the woman and her bike, and full braking should have been applied. Since the collision occurred at 40 MPH in a 45 MPH zone, the Uber probably did not even slow before the collision.
The accident might have been caused by hardware or software, but this sounds like a bad system failure.
I wonder if the Uber did not brake because it was being tailgated. If so, a few code corrections might be appropriate.
Helluva beta test.
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