I’m surprised car manufacturers are coming out with all these autonomous features. These are just lawsuits waiting to happen. Our Toyota has a lane departure assist feature, but it works pretty poorly. If someone depended on that, they would be in trouble. Some of the other features seem to work pretty well.
Trump, of course.
Whose fault? The arrogant technologists and the non-technology companies on track to making themselves serfs of the arrogant technologists.
Did they test the TAILPIPE for alcohol?
Keep the cars off the road. Sadly people want to blame her, excuse it as she was or might have been homeless, had history of drugs, etc. Does not excuse Uber from running her down. What happens next when it is someone's kid on a bicycle after school or going to school?
The creators of the software are going to move mountains, hire the best lawyers, and scream to high heaven so as not to be held responsible. Same with the manufacturer of the car. It will fall on the owner and “non-driver” of the car.
Just or not, that’s what will happen.
Another question to ask is “How quiet or loud was the vehicle?” There was a point in maybe the 1990’s that it was noted that cars being made quieter were more dangerous to pedestrians, as it is often the sound that is heard first and the pedestrian and in some cases another driver reacts to the sound and adverts danger.
This tech has been OVERSOLD from day one...
This is an 80-20/90-10 problem... meaning 80-90 percent of the work will be in the final 10-20% of the problem... This tech is NOWHERE near a point where it should be on public roads.
We don’t even have vehicles making autonomous interstate runs yet, which is a far far simpler problem.. all traffic is going the same way, limited access, no cross traffic etc... Yet these things are on city streets??? Urban driving? A far far harder problem to deal with!!! Its insane.
THese vehicles are not being held to any sort of safety standards... they couldn’t even meet the federal safety standards for RAIL!! A far simpler and controlled environment.
THe urban mayors, my own included, should be tarred and feathered for being conned into the hype around this stuff. Its insane that GM has applied for a federal ok to sell fully autonomous vehicles without a steering wheel in them, targeting a year or two to be out for general consumption.
The TECH is NOWHERE near that level yet. I am all for developing autonomous vehicles, but its a limited market in the near term, elderly and disabled who are unable to drive on their own, and will take a slow vehicle designed for safety, but gets them from a to b without depending on others. That’s the near term market, because the tech is nowhere near a level where it can safely interact with the unpredictable world of urban traffic. To be safe in that environment it must be slow, and it must default to STOP, whenever it gets “confused”
There will always be accidents, even with autonomous vehicles, I don’t know if this could have been avoided or not, but this was hardly the case as originally reported that this woman “darted out” in front of this car... She was clearly calmly walking her bike across the street... at 40 MPH even at night, she should have been seen... From the video its abundantly clear the vehicle either didn’t “see” her, or worse yet, did “see” her but didn’t recognize her for what she was.
This tech is NOWHERE near a level it should be out on public streets.... Its been a false bill of sale from day one, its a LONG LONG time from being safe and ready for the public streets.