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Re:Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of... by CobrastanJorji on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:28PM (#16633380)
Weird scenarios that can't be predicted are important to consider. Waymo presentations like talking about a situation they ran into where the car needed to stop because it encountered an old woman in a wheelchair with a broom chasing a turkey. As I understand it, most of these companies sensibly say "unknown weird thing in/near road means stop the car."

ooo, there's video of the turkey wheelchair broom chase: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2017/mar/16/goo...

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Re:Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of... by s73v3r_ on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @07:56PM (#16633961)
A person pushing a bike is far, far from a "weird scenario", though.
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Re:Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of... by stevenwoo on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:54PM (#16634303)
It may depend if the test cars are used on routes with lots of homeless people or not, for the Mountain View test center I know of a handful of regularly seen homeless people on loaded bikes nearby in downtown Los Altos/Mountain View but it's not close to the level of San Francisco/San Jose/Oakland/Los Angeles/Anaheim/San Diego.
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Re:Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of... by s73v3r_ on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:59PM (#16640049)
A person pushing a bike is quite a common scenario, and it falls to the Uber engineers to account for it.
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Re:Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of... by lojack on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:53PM (#16634294)
To a computer that’s never encountered this scenario before it might be.
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Re:Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of... by s73v3r_ on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:59PM (#16640038)
Then that is the fault of Uber for not exposing it to this extremely common scenario beforehand.
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Re:Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of... by skellera on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @11:15AM (#16638714)
She had a bunch of shopping bags hanging off the front. I imagine that could change how it was identified.
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Re:Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of... by probably_wrong on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:46AM (#16636044)
> As I understand it, most of these companies sensibly say "unknown weird thing in/near road means stop the car."

That's not entirely true. A Tesla, for instance, won't stop if it detects a stationary object on the highway, assuming it's a false positives of the algorithm.

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar

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Re:Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of... by zaarn on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @04:02AM (#16636308)
That sounds rather dangerous considering stationary objects do appear on highways from time to time.
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