Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of Self-Driving Uber

Re:Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of... by jack9 on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:22AM (#16635435)

> It's very hard to imagine a scenario in which a 49-year-old woman walking her bike manages to cross 3 lanes of traffic so quickly that the Uber AV, moving at 40 mph, had no time to react, in a location with good street lighting and with clear weather

Explaining the imagining, is the salient issue.

> The parent didn't say that he is imagining anything

Splitting hairs over the phrasing is not compelling. The poster was proposing a scenario as the most reasonable interpretation while couching it to minimize criticism (the equivalent of the "just sayin" trope).

The premise is flawed. It never sounded reasonable to assume the pedestrian did not see the vehicle at all. I can imagine a perfectly reasonable scenario where the pedestrian tried (and failed) to clear the vehicular path before being struck on the attempted destination side of the road.

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Re:Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of... by danso on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @08:41AM (#16637508)

Sincere question: how did I couch it to minimize criticism? And I don't know exactly what the "just sayin" trope is, is it this one:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=just%20sayin...

Not sure how it applies. But anyway, in my defense, I didn't say that I was imagining scenarios. I said the exact opposite, that I could not (or, it was "very hard to") imagine a scenario in which someone crossing left-to-right is mostly unseen by a right-lane driver. By saying I can't imagine, I'm limiting myself to my own experience and observations.

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Re:Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of... by shanghaiaway on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @01:07AM (#16635635)

I'm not splitting hairs. The person I replied to, and you, are splitting hairs.

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