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
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.
“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.
Sounds like they didn’t adequately learn to code to borrow a lefty buzzphrase.
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.
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.
and there was no alert to the operator there might be a problem with their input required???Death penalty for jaywalking? Even Stalin would be envious.
Trump’s been in office only three years. I never realized what low IQs these Hollywood idiots had until Trump
“...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.”
Typical Telsa supporter response:
“Well! That was a pretty stupid configuration for her to be in, wheeling a bicycle across the street, not a crosswalk, and at night. If she hadn’t done all 3 at the same time, we may have let her live.”
Go ahead blame the car, not the morons controlling it.
Sounds like the computer saw the ‘object’ in time, but had trouble classifying the ‘object’ to know it need to stop.
When I get into that situation driving, I will SLOW DOWN and plan on stopping, until I get closer and I’m certain that I don’t need to stop. I was once with my wife and pretty far in front of us, I guy in a pickup thought it would be a good idea to toss a mattress on to the road. My wife, who was driving, was hypnotized momentarily as she tried to process it - I yelled at her to slow down...and she did stop in time.
My guess here is that the person doing the coding lives in San Francisco (Mission District) and takes the Google (or Uber) bus to work every day, and doesn’t even own a car, and may not even have a driver’s license. So things are binary to him - first you identify, and then you slow down if necessary, which is what the car did. Unfortunately, as I doubt he ever took a physics class, or he would have learned that cars also do need time to stop.
If I remember the video, this woman appeared to cross the middle of the highway, at night, in front of the only car coming down the road.
Even a human would have been hard-pressed NOT TO hit someone suddenly walking in front of you in the dark, on an empty road, at highway speeds.
Was this a suicide? I think I read that she was homeless too.
To resolve this problem the Ministry of People Movement Control has mandated that people can't cross streets where there aren't government authorized crosswalks.
Is this our future?
Head of Uber Software Engineering after the death: “Rajiv, get together with product management and marketing; revise the MRD so we account for pedestrians who may not be in crosswalks.”