One dead and nine wounded after accident with self-driving car
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Re: One dead and nine wounded after accident with self-driving car
#2In a curve the self-driving lost his way and collided with two other cars, leaving the driver dead and wounded nine other persons.
Re: One dead and nine wounded after accident with self-driving car
#3The phrasing in the article is a bit confusing if it's actually established that it was running autonomously or not. (other articles suggest that's currently unclear/hasn't been announced)
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#4No post body was provided.
Re: One dead and nine wounded after accident with self-driving car
#5In a curve the self-driving lost his way and collided with two other cars, leaving the driver dead and wounded nine other persons.
Self-driving car crashed into old lady. Old lady crashed into another car. That other car's driver died.
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#6Can't read german. Does anyone have any input on the following question? Isn't a driver meant to constantly monitor a slef driving car and manually take over? Do we know of this person had this ability? Can a person react quick enough to prevent an accident?
Re: One dead and nine wounded after accident with self-driving car
#7The phrasing in the article is a bit confusing if it's actually established that it was running autonomously or not. (other articles suggest that's currently unclear/hasn't been announced)
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Re: One dead and nine wounded after accident with self-driving car
#8Can't read german. Does anyone have any input on the following question? Isn't a driver meant to constantly monitor a slef driving car and manually take over? Do we know of this person had this ability? Can a person react quick enough to prevent an accident?
I can't answer, but I can't imagine myself being focused enough to be able to react really quickly to an immediate danger on the road if I'm not actively driving the car. I doubt most people would be able to do this.
I don't think I'm going to use a self driving car in self driving mode as long as I am expected to watch out for danger and take over if needed. If I need to constantly monitor, I might as well drive. Self-driving is only compelling if this means I can free some time for me while the car is driving, or at least make driving safer. Otherwise, it certainly just makes driving more boring and more dangerous.
Until then, I'm more a proponent of making driving easier by removing the manual gears so my focus can be better directed toward the road and less toward the gears. Engines do it better than me anyway.
Re: One dead and nine wounded after accident with self-driving car
#9In a curve the self-driving lost his way and collided with two other cars, leaving the driver dead and wounded nine other persons.
Self-driving car crashed into old lady. Old lady crashed into another car. That other car's driver died.
According to the articke, autonomous car (unclear so far if manually controlled at the time of the accident or not at the moment) hit car A (old lady), car A subsequently hit car B, car B went of the road, hit a tree and caught fire. After hitting car A, the autonomous car hit car C head on (I assume that's what you see in the picture), driver of car C died (no surpise whej looking at the picture). Pretty fucked up, even more so if the autonomous car was actually driving autonomous.
For what it's worth, the autonomous car in question seems to be a BMW (hard to tell with the wreackage).
Re: One dead and nine wounded after accident with self-driving car
#10The phrasing in the article is a bit confusing if it's actually established that it was running autonomously or not. (other articles suggest that's currently unclear/hasn't been announced)
The article calls it an E-test car but it also says it had the 43 year old driver and 4 passengers(aged 31, 47, 42 and a baby). Is it a test car, which I'd expect would just have 1 or 2 employees monitoring everything, or a car being used by civilians?
If you zoom in the picture, the logo on the center of the car's rim is BMW's logo...