Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by conductr on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:34PM (#16620636)

I think it'd be safer to keep the bikes in the far right even if they go straight. Yes, it means they have to pay attention to cars turning right. They might even need to stop until it's safe. This is a place where "bikes/peds having right of way" doesn't really make sense.

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by InitialLastName on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:47PM (#16620868)

Users to the right have the right of way over users further towards the center of the street. Thus, pedestrians crossing in the crosswalk have priority over bicycles and cars turning right, and bicycles going straight have priority over cars turning right.

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by conductr on Monday March 19, 2018 @10:58PM (#16625671)

I guess in a perfect world having right of way means you can cross the street without looking left or right. I’m more willing to yield as a bike/ped because my risk is higher and I know people are distracted idiots.

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by InitialLastName on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @11:42AM (#16629528)

Absolutely worth accepting the reality of drivers on phones' as a threat to safety. I'm just trying to explain the rules of the road from which intersection design can be derived.

There are ways to design an intersection so that those rules are followed naturally, and there are ways to miss it. C.f. right turn lanes.

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by Symbiote on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:17PM (#16621344)

This is the way it works in Copenhagen.

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