Is that a damaged bicycle in the photo? Don’t see any crosswalk hash marks.
The sensors should have been able to track/detect movement on the side of the road and slowed down appropriately. It doesn’t look like she was hiding in bushes or otherwise invisible to the driver.
The photo posted above may be something else, since the person who was killed in this incident was a pedestrian, probably a homeless person (and probably drunk or on drugs), who had wandered out into the road from between two parked cars. And there actually was a human driver in the car.
The car was going 38 in a 35 mph zone, which is pretty normal for a human driver, and the human driver didn’t react in time.
Self driving cars are still a work in progress, so the human driver is put in as a back-up.
However, one of the problems is that even for non-self driving cars, vehicle-pedestrian accidents are way up, and one of the reasons suggested is that there are simply so many drugged or drunk “homeless” pedestrians wandering the streets and roads that the possibility of hitting one has increased a lot since these cars were designed.
I think they might have to make it supersensitive, but if even a human being who had the controls as well didn’t have time to intervene, I’d say this was an unpreventable fatality. Streets are streets and roads are roads - meant for vehicles.
She was walking the bicycle according to the police. She’s homeless and had a lot of plastic bags on the bike.
Self-driving Uber car hits and kills cyclist as she crosses road
A self-driving Uber car struck and killed a bicyclist after she jaywalked across a road.