What about the mangled bicycle on the sidewalk ahead of the vehicle?
The ultimate punishment for jaywalking.
Get out your checkbook Uber, your stupid idea has now cost someone their life.
So, there was a person in the car at the time with the car set on "autonomous."
SkyNet has become self-aware.
What about the mangled bicycle on the sidewalk ahead of the vehicle?
Jaywalking. Darwinism.
The cost of progress. Drivers need to be able to use their smartphone full time and looking out the windshield is too much trouble. /s
get ready for people to “sort of get hit” by these robot cars and the following lawsuits..
Well, the passenger was perfectly safe.
This raises an interesting legal question:
Can the people who wrote the code and tested the vehicle be charged with a negligence crime?
Or, even manslaughter?
Was the car here illegally?
Does the Uber vehicle have flashing lights or audible alerts for bikers or pedestrians? Would giving a special heads-up defeat the purpose of testing an autonomous robot in public? Is a person, or a manikin in the drivers seat, for night testing?
...a human safety driver at the wheel....
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Thinking human wasn’t providing enough safety.
At 10 p.m. it was dark.
The woman was not in the crosswalk.
Funny thing is that last night I was driving home around 9:45 p.m. and almost hit a guy crossing the road. He was dressed all in black and I did not even see him until my car was even with him. He was in the left traffic lane.
I am certain that if I had hit this guy it would not be national news.
Wait and see what all the facts are.
Driverless trucks are now being used in Atlanta. According to the article, it’s the same company that is using the driverless cars in Phoenix. Now instead of one person getting killed, there will be multiple deaths.
Truly sad. Government and lobbyists shoved these cars down our throat just recently.
Wait till they start mowing down kids on bikes. It will happen.
and so it begins ...
If someone walking darts in front of a vehicle, or a bicycle swerves suddenly in front of a vehicle, or someone walks out from behind a bus into traffic, it’s not going to matter if there’s a driver or not, laws of motion cannot be denied. It will take that 2,000 pound machine a certain distance to stop even with millisecond reflexes.