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Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Pedestrian in Arizona, Accident Could Have Implications for Autonomous Vehicle Testing
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Apparently she crossed the road with a bike on the left side of the cross walk. I don’t know if she was right next to cross walk or not. Anyway, it’s strange that all the sonars, lidars and the human monitoring failed to react. Or was the car able to react but due to speed not able avoid the collision. Remains to be seen.
Said no one ever that has had to drive long distance 6-10 hours in a day or has an hour plus one-way commute to work daily.
Given that there was a human safety driver behind the wheel I am going to guess there was not way a human could have avoided this accident. But, data analysis will show the truth.
Actually, that's not entirely true. Obviously if a driver is drunk, speeding or driving recklessly and they cause an accident where there's a fatality they would be criminally charged. Not every car accident where there's a fatality results in someone going to jail. Sometimes bad things just happen that no reasonable person could prevent.
You must not commute. One hour each way in stop and go traffic going at 0-30-10-0-20. 1 hour to make 20 miles. 10 times a week. Do that for a while and you will be happy for anything or anyone to take over driving.
Millions of people everyday drive a human-operated vehicle. Believe it or not, some people actually enjoy driving and find it relaxing. Doesn’t mean they’re going to drive like a jerkoff into a tree. We’ve been responsible enough to drive ourselves for 100 years, what changes once autonomous vehicles become available??
that would be great, to finally focus again on their core business. Apple is trying to do everything, but almost nothing properly..
seeing her and being able to stop when someone walks out in front of your car are not the same thing. There is no proof YET that this was an avoidable accident that happened due to self driving being a failure
A lot of christian-like sympathy/empathy emanating from Psalm 91 guy. Shelter, indeed.
I am very sorry for the lady who passed away. There was a human safety driver behind the wheel. If the human and the car didn't see her, then there was no way a human alone would have any chance of seeing her.. People need to be smart and aware of their surroundings. You are responsive for keeping yourself alive.
Let me fix that for you... We've been IRresponsible enough to kill 30,000 people a year in the US alone with manually driven vehicles.
People do care about it, but you worry about the biggest problems first. There are 10s of autonomous vehicles and 10s of millions of human driven vehicles. The death rate from autonomous “test” vehicles is much, much higher than human driven vehicles right now.
Right. And I’m sure owners of self driving cars will be thrilled to pay higher insurance premiums when their self driving car makes a mistake.
two words that come with human drivers: "inattentional blindness"
self-driving cars are still infants
Pah! Just register your car as a gun and insist on your 2nd amendment rights. If you can kill someone with it, it’s a weapon and should be legal.
None of those technologies had the potential (and noted explicit goal) to replace *millions* of workers for robots, headed up by the three top worldwide companies.
This “horse and buggy* trope is getting old. Modern AI is simply not comparable to the service jobs that were available in the past. Where do you people expect workers to go in a world that has every sector racing to automate workers out of business?
A steel plant that used to require 1400 workers now requires 14 in the control room. Do you people see ANY sector that is suddenly going to have openings to fill anywhere close to the to the number of people thrown out of work? Are there millions of Walmarts openinging up all of a sudden?
Not to mention, the flood of “looking for any work at all” workers is going to drive down wage pressures even further than the last 40 years of neoliberal market shaping has.
Let’s stop pretending we’re looking at a new industrial revolution. This is the industrial revolution stepped up multiple orders of magnitudes. White-collar work is next on the chopping block so all you office workers are on notice as well.
Hopefully it sets Uber back as far as possible. Yeah, these things can happen to anyone, but for some reason they seem to keep happening to Uber. Could it have something to do with that company’s cavalier attitude toward regulations and consequences?
Asking for forgiveness rather than permission sounds like a great model until you’re asking forgiveness from a grieving family.