Posted on 03/26/2018 9:19:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Monday, the auto-parts maker that supplied the radar and camera on the Volvo SUV that struck and killed the woman last week said Uber had disabled the standard collision-avoidance technology in the vehicle.
"We don't want people to be confused or think it was a failure of the technology that we supply for Volvo, because that's not the case," Zach Peterson, a spokesman for Aptiv, said by phone. The Volvo XC90's standard advanced driver-assistance system "has nothing to do" with the Uber test vehicle's autonomous driving system, he said.
Aptiv is speaking up for its technology to avoid being tainted by the fatality involving Uber, which may have been following standard practice by disabling other tech as it develops and tests its own autonomous driving system. Experts who saw video of the Uber crash pointed to apparent failures in Uber's sensor system, which failed to stop or slow the car as 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg crossed a street pushing a bicycle.
Police in Tempe, Ariz., and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident.
Uber didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Again, an attentive human driver would have avoid the collision and not killed the woman.
Bwahahahahahayhahahaha ! ...
A ring laser gyro or fiber optic gyro would allow traveling many miles by dead reckoning. I don't think cost is an issue, if someone makes millions of them the costs will come down.
Or road construction sites where the guys doing aren’t sure exactly how your supposed to get through it. Doesn’t happen often but more tha I would like. Or when emergency vehicles have the road blocked and expect you to pull a road out of your rectum to get where your going. Happened a couple of times to me in the last few years but lucky for me a knew the area.
I meant “the guys doing it” and “I knew the area.”
Uber is a hot mess
Misleading headline. Uber used their own system rather than the one that comes with the car.
A safe human woukd have avoided the accident.
But humans deserve special rights too, like the software glitch privilege.
Can’t speak for others, but I would NEVER trust a self-driving car to stop for me if I were crossing the street.
What’s disturbing about that video is how misleading it is. It may very well have been deliberately darkened to support the “she came out of nowhere” CYA excuse.
Here’s another video recorded over the same stretch of road at night. It lays waste to the bogus claim from Uber that the road was too dark to see a pedestrian. An alert human driver would have had no trouble seeing the woman and her bike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRW0q8i3u6E
Even so, dark or not, the vehicle’s sensors and software were clearly not up to the task of dealing with an obstruction in the road.
Better to stand behind your product....
“Better to stand behind your product....”
Generally true, but they do have a reverse gear. Probably better to be on one side.
Knew something was wrong - even my Rav4 would have at least locked them up (as much as the ABS would allow) trying to stop and the Uber car never twitched.
In High School I could drive up to the local Sonic and order with my CB radio. It could over power everyone else and bleed through into the ordering console and blast my skip talk with no problem. I only ordered once that way, cause I didnt want John Lawman knowing I was 100watts over power.
That dude driving must have several PhDs. That or a few felony convictions.
Stock tip ‘O the day - Sell UBER - NOW
I would figure that the radar or what ever “sensor” is looking should be able to see farther than the headlights of the car. People used to get charged with over driveing their headlight if you got caught speeding at night. It turned into wreckless driving with possible felony vehicular homicide if someone got killed. Breaking and swerving to the left would have prevented the death. A human driver paying proper attention could have avoided this completely. A normal human of today’s attention span would perform marginally better than the computer.
Was the guy watching porn on his cell phone when he ran her over?
In the video, it appeared that there was a large blank rectangle on the screen then the woman suddenly popped into view. It wasn’t clear if it was a camera failure or if the video had been (poorly) doctored.
If you stop the video at about the 9 second mark, you can see a dark mask in the center of the screen. When the car was further away, it blocked the entire bicycle; by that point in the video it blocks from her shoulders to her waist and from even with the center of the rear wheel to the handlebars. Her head is just appearing at the upper right of the mask.
Camera fault or doctored video?
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