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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by ape4 on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:35PM (#16623932)
Exactly, with LIDAR the logic isn't very tricky. if something in front, stop.
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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by JoeAltmaier on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:36PM (#16623945)
More than that - if something approaching from the side at intercept velocity, slow to avoid collision.
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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by Piskvorrr on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @03:01AM (#16626485)
You're handwaving away the crux of the matter: while for a human, the condition seems straightforward (as we understand that "in front" means "in a set of locations in the near future, determined by a many-dimensional vector set", expressing this in code is nontrivial.
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