Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by astrodust on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:10PM (#16621232)

Unlike humans who have limited vision, self-driving cars are generally able to observe all obstacles in all directions and compute, in real-time, the probability of a collision.

If a car can't observe any potential hazards that might impact it using different threat models it should drive more slowly. Blowing down a narrow street with parked cars on both sides at precisely the speed limit is not a good plan.

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by mr_toad on Monday March 19, 2018 @07:55PM (#16624598)

You could do that, but how far do you take it? Do you program a car to slow to 10mph every time it passes a parked delivery van just in case? Would people find that acceptable?

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by nugi on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:29AM (#16626391)

Yes? If self driving is being hailed as being safer, it, you know, should be. If that means doing all the boring stuff I would not bother to, so be it. How else will they be safer unless by ignoring our driving biases?

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