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I knew the woman was coming up in the video and I didn't see her until it would have been too late. The driver definitely seemed distracted by a device of some kind.
That’s only because there’s no light on her until the end. The car hardware should have seen her. If it doesn’t work in the dark it shouldn’t be on the road imho.
Wow, I had thought it impossible for the Uber AV to be in the right lane, and for the victim to be crossing left-to-right, for the police to claim that the victim couldn't be seen until it was too late. But I didn't expect the road to be so dark, given what we saw in the accident photos (which might have been over-exposed?) and Google Maps, which showed a lot of street/sidewalk lighting. In the moment that we can ful…
I mean I've seen comments that a human might not have seen the pedestrian. Is that a "defense" of driving AI? That's it's about as good as human driving?
Seems to me the public won't accept driverless cars unless there is significant evidence that it's much better than human drivers - after all human drivers make a lot of mistakes and cause a lot of fatalities. I don't think any other claims of the advantages of AI driving could offset any negative publicity of injury or death.
Just a thought in the context of this tragedy.
It's clear from the video that a human driver actually would've had more trouble since the pedestrian showed up in the field of view right before the collision, yet that's in the visible spectrum.
When I argue for automated driving (as a casual observer), I tell people about exactly this sort of stuff (a computer can look in 20 places at the same time, a human can't. a computer can see in the dark, a human can't).
Yet this crash proves that all the equipment in the world didn't catch a very obvious obstruction.
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She wasn't wearing anything visible at a pitch black street at night. It seems like there was about 7 meters before her shoes were even visible.
On the other, the operator was clearly distracted regardless of if they would have been able to avoid this.
This time it actually has the video. And it is a poignant reminder that there is no such thing as a too reflective vest for bicyclists.
And to not jaywalk a bike across a street in the dark!