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Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars Hit Pedestrians

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Re: Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars Hit Pedestrians

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Drivers don't typically have signals high-resolution 360 degree views, accelerometers, and other sensors on the outside of an insulated steel and aluminum vehicle piped directly into their sensory experience.

Sure, but if it was easy to interpret the results of all those sensors they wouldn’t be hitting people in the first place.

Analyzing archived footage is much different than real-time analysis.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drivers don't typically have signals high-resolution 360 degree views, accelerometers, and other sensors on the outside of an insulated steel and aluminum vehicle piped directly into their sensory experience.

Sure, but if it was easy to interpret the results of all those sensors they wouldn’t be hitting people in the first place.

It's not easy to act on the information in a car. But the technology is sure as hell advanced enough to tell if you hit someone. I mean it's literally video you can look at it

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Have been hit by Uber twice as a pedestrian. Reported it to Uber support, I gave location and time. And they don’t care, support agents keep dropping and handing off the request because the know it will go nowhere. Where’s the regulation of rideshare accident reporting?

Any reason you aren't reporting it to the police?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drivers don't typically have signals high-resolution 360 degree views, accelerometers, and other sensors on the outside of an insulated steel and aluminum vehicle piped directly into their sensory experience.

Sure, but if it was easy to interpret the results of all those sensors they wouldn’t be hitting people in the first place.

Hitting anything should be registered, let alone people.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drivers don't typically have signals high-resolution 360 degree views, accelerometers, and other sensors on the outside of an insulated steel and aluminum vehicle piped directly into their sensory experience.

Sure, but if it was easy to interpret the results of all those sensors they wouldn’t be hitting people in the first place.

Or maybe they just don't care.

Their business model is, "move fast, break laws, hope that society changes the laws before we go bankrupt".

Self driving cars need to be sent to Antarctica and tested there, where there's no humans to drag.

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public transit is the answer, not stuffing a bunch of sensors into a single car but nobody's getting venture capital for that, nobody's making a profit off of it, so here we are

Why should venture capital be relevant to a non-commercial money-losing venture?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but if it was easy to interpret the results of all those sensors they wouldn’t be hitting people in the first place.

It's not easy to act on the information in a car. But the technology is sure as hell advanced enough to tell if you hit someone. I mean it's literally video you can look at it

But is anyone reviewing these videos? Just having hundreds or thousands of hours of videos doesn't mean you know what's in those videos.

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Have been hit by Uber twice as a pedestrian. Reported it to Uber support, I gave location and time. And they don’t care, support agents keep dropping and handing off the request because the know it will go nowhere. Where’s the regulation of rideshare accident reporting?

Any reason you aren't reporting it to the police?

Some people dont want to validate their existence or the bad laws that also exist on the statute books.

Re: Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Cruise Driverless Cars Hit Pedestrians

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Have been hit by Uber twice as a pedestrian. Reported it to Uber support, I gave location and time. And they don’t care, support agents keep dropping and handing off the request because the know it will go nowhere. Where’s the regulation of rideshare accident reporting?

Have you asked the police to bring charges as a hit and run? I mean, if you can't get Uber to answer, pretty sure the cops can get them to do so.

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