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Someone make these ridiculous things illegal please. NOW.

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[gaijin]

No one is focusing on the illegal felon TRANNY who was supervising (not driving, really) the car:

Dainty, ain't he..?

ALL reports are focusing ONLY on the tech, not the whacko felon.

[McGavin999]

The human wasn’t even looking at the road.

[DoughtyOne]

As we get older, some traffic intersections get confusing enough for humans. In a city there may be as many as five or more different light configurations at intersections. Lane configurations add to the problem. You need human a human level skill-set to traverse the traffic system, and even then that’s not even a guarantee that accidents won’t happen, people won’t die.

This seemed like a death machine from the get-go. As soon as they started talking about it, I was very negative toward them.

I don’t want these machines (driver-less vehicles) on the road.

Imagine what one rogue semi could do.

[gaijin]

His name is something that sorta hints at him actually being a man.

He actually has several different felonies.

[Responsibility2nd]

I thought she was hit as she attempted to cross right to left. But now I see she had crossed from left to right. Would an attentive driver miss her?

I doubt it.

[FrdmLvr]

Well, back to the ol drawing board!

[catnipman]

looking at that video, i think there’s a VERY good chance that an alert driver would have had time to slam on the brakes and/or swerve. Maybe not to avoid the collision entirely, but at least reduce speed and/or strike a glancing blow. I’ve certainly had people appear out of the dark in similar circumstances where I’ve had to slam on the brakes in a panic.

I think both Uber and “driverless” cars are in serious trouble here.

[Alberta's Child]

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.

[Bonemaker]

Was she a democrat?

[McGruff]

Even Fox News has the video.

[Moonman62]

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.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

So who is going to be charged with murder???

[1_Rain_Drop]

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.

[TChad]

This looks like a circumstance in which a human would make a mistake, not a machine.

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.

[Nifster]

The Uber back up driver was looking down not observing traffic or pedestrians

[TTFlyer]

Fat, stupid slobs too lazy to drive their own cars. That’s “progress.”

Welcome to the New Frontier - spit.

[dragnet2]

The pedestrian was clearly visible about 60-70 feet prior to point of impact.

And I sure hope Uber or someone else didn’t manipulate or darken portions of this video. It almost appears that way. I’ll have to take a closer look.

[OrangeHoof]

Looks like Ms. Triplechin was looking down at something like maybe her cell or a tv.

If I saw this correctly, the cyclist was already in the first lane and was walking into the second lane when the wreck happened. If so, that’s even worse for the designers because the car did not see the cyclist in the neighboring lane as it approached.