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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by mirimir on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @03:13AM (#16626525)
Isn't that an overly broad use of the term? I mean, if someone steps in front of a moving vehicle, from between parked vehicles, the driver may have only a few msec to react. Whose fault is it then?

Maybe it's society's fault, for building open-access roadways where vehicles exceed a few km/h.

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by PebblesRox on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:35PM (#16633435)
I think you’re right about the street design being the main cause in this case. A street with people on it should be designed so that drivers naturally drive at slow, safe speeds. The intersection in question is designed for high speed. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/2/2/forgiving-desig...
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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by drieddust on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @07:15AM (#16627515)
I don't remember reading about parked vehicles. Accident location seems to be too narrow to park any vehicles.

As others have said in the comments, whole point of having technology is defeated if it performs worse than humans. Assuming vehicles were parked, a sane human driver will evaluate the possibility of someone coming out from between them suddenly and will not drive @40 Miles an hour speed.

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by astura on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:11AM (#16628669)
>a sane human driver will evaluate the possibility of someone coming out from between them suddenly and will not drive @40 Miles an hour speed.

If that's the case most drivers on the road are very far from "sane drivers." I've been illegally passed, on narrow residential streets, many times, because I was going a speed that took into account the fact someone may jump out between parked cars.

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by drieddust on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:56PM (#16630354)
Do you want AI to simulate insanity?
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