When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal

Re:When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal by codeulike on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:45AM (#14838366)

Car might brake suddenly because it thinks two bicycles are right infront of it?

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Re:When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal by marcosdumay on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:52AM (#14838444)

Any car can break suddenly for any reason or no reason at all. It's not a tragic failure mode, instead, the desired situation is that all failures lead to this.

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Re:When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal by pbhjpbhj on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:57AM (#14839533)

Braking suddenly is a great way to cause a crash.

Autonomous vehicle target being tailgated, operate device in front vehicle and autonomous vehicle slams on its brakes and gets rear-ended.

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Re:When’s a pedestrian not a pedestrian? When it’s a decal by undersuit on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:50PM (#14840079)

But that's not special. Vehicle brakes all the time and they/we don't optimize for a tailgater. That's an optimization to be deferred to the tailgater.

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