Posted on 11/10/2019 9:18:55 AM PST by yesthatjallen
A self-driving Uber car that struck and killed an Arizona woman was not able to recognize that pedestrians jaywalk, the National Traffic Safety Board revealed in documents released earlier this week.
Elaine Herzberg, 49, died after she was hit in March 2018 by a Volvo SUV, which had an operator in the driver's seat and was traveling at about 40 miles per hour in autonomous mode at night in Tempe.
The fatal accident came as a result of this automated Uber not having "the capability to classify an object as a pedestrian unless that object was near a crosswalk," one of the NTSB documents said.
Because the car could not recognize Herzberg as a pedestrian or person — instead alternating between classifications of "vehicle, bicycle, and an other" — it could not correctly predict her path and concluded it needed to brake just 1.3 seconds before it struck her as she wheeled her bicycle across the street a little before 10 p.m. at night.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
The Uber driver was told to keep her eyes on the road. The video showing the driver looking down.
On Thursday, June 21, the Tempe Police Department released a detailed report along with media captured after the collision, including an audio recording of the 911 call made by the safety driver, Rafaela Vasquez and an initial on-scene interview with a responding officer, captured by body worn video. After the crash, police obtained search warrants for Vasquez's cellphones as well as records from the video streaming services Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu. The investigation concluded that because the data showed she was streaming The Voice over Hulu at the time of the collision, and the driver-facing camera in the Volvo showed "her face appears to react and show a smirk or laugh at various points during the time she is looking down", Vasquez may have been distracted from her primary job of monitoring road and vehicle conditions. Tempe police concluded the crash was "entirely avoidable"[45] and faulted Vasquez for her "disregard for assigned job function to intervene in a hazardous situation"
Artificial intelligence is indeed artificial, but intelligence has nothing to do with it unless you call Nth-order stimulus-response “intelligence.”
In this case Darwin rules the day
Pffffftttttt! Programming error. Or, the city FAILED to install the interface that should have alerted the AI uber transport unit.
That’s not a bug, that’s a feature!
They should have a lawsuit large enough to WIPE out UBER and the AUTOMATED CAR INDUSTRY. This IS STUPID. We do not need self-driving cars. Kill this FAD before it kills more people.
Regular drivers kill jaywalkers by the boatload.
If this was caused by a defective/missing “if-then” it is by definition not “intelligence.”
It’s garden-variety programming, as you just admitted.
“The fatal accident came as a result of this automated Uber not having “the capability to classify an object as a pedestrian unless that object was near a crosswalk,” one of the NTSB documents said.”
No. It came as a result of the operator not putting on the brakes and stopping or slowing or taking the wheel to avoid hitting the pedestrian.
Well perhaps the operator was just getting to the juicy part of the book.
Sounds like they didn’t adequately learn to code to borrow a lefty buzzphrase.
I saw the video.
She walked her bike slowly across the road in an area where there were no lights while cars were speeding by.
Did she believe cars would slow down for her?
The driver doesn't get off here. It was a test car and she was told to watch the road not 'The Voice'.
Regular drivers kill jaywalkers by the boatload
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What would you rather trust your life to if you had to cross the street with no crosswalk, or even with a crosswalk? A car with no driver or a car with a human driver?
I distinctly remember reading that the LIDAR sensors were turned off because they were reading too many false positives by picking up wind-blown objects like paper trash along the side of the road, causing the test car to brake.
Hmmm, here is an extract of the code...
if (pedestrian.isMale()) {
points += 10;
} else if (pedestrian.isFemale()) {
points +=20;
} else if (pedestrian.isBaby()) {
points +=40;
} else if (pedestrian.getAge() >= 65) {
points +=70;
} else if (pedestrian.isDisabled()) {
points +=100;
}
I blame the woman who was jaywalking across four lanes of traffic at 10:00 at night.
But the law says no pedestrians can be there—must be a lib car.
I’d like to see them tested at a mall parking lot around Christmas time. Or leaving an NFL game.
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