Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
by kybernetikos on Thursday March 22, 2018 @04:31AM
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> If the headlamps were aimed properly, it should light up the road about 5 seconds ahead of the car.
A system with this rule baked in would be driving slower.
People adjust the way they drive based on what their environment is doing, how well their equipment is working and their own alertness. Except in the extremes we should not accept misconfigured equipment as an excuse. And if a system detects that there is no acceptably safe speed for it to go then it should not move at all.
Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
by u801e on Thursday March 22, 2018 @07:13AM
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> A system with this rule baked in would be driving slower.
Arguably, the system should detect a misconfiguration like this when the car is turned on and not allow the car to be driven until the problem is fixed.
Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
by lambdadmitry on Thursday March 22, 2018 @11:07AM
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Screw the system, people on the project should've detected a "misconfiguration" like that.
They didn't. Either because they are negligent or because the footage is misleading and the system saw the whole thing but did nothing.
The headlamps may have been functioning, but they appeared to be aimed way too low. You can see that the car is able to traverse the distance lit up by the headlamp in about a second at 38 mph. If the headlamps were aimed properly, it should light up the road about 5 seconds ahead of the car.