Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:32AM
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Self-driving cars could compensate for that with reaction time. Think of it this way: you trying to predict what the other driver will do is partly compensating for your lack of reaction time. A self-driving car could, in worst-case scenario, treat the other car as randomly-moving car-shaped object, compute the envelope of its possible moves, and make sure to stay out of it.
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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by IgorPartola on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:43AM
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Normal cars could do this too. Higher end luxury cars already started using the parking sensors to automatically apply the brakes way before you do if something is in front of the car and approaching fast. If this was really that easy, then we wouldn't have all these accidents reported about self driving cars: the first line of your event loop would just be `if (sensors.front.speed < -10m/s) {brakes.apply()}` and Teslas and Ubers wouldn't hit slow moving objects ever. I suspect that's not really how this works though.