Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
by FabHK on Thursday March 22, 2018 @05:24AM
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In the wake of the Tesla accident, there was this discussion about the difficulty of detecting stationary obstacles (too many false positives, so they're readily discarded). As here the movement was perpendicular to the movement of the car, I wonder whether that had any impact.
Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
by fudged71 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @10:33AM
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This was my first thought as well when watching the video
Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
by martin_bech on Thursday March 22, 2018 @04:00AM
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The Teslas are not restricted to cameras, but sensorfuse with multiple radars. Im 99-100% sure, that my Tesla would have braked.
IMO this was still a hard case for a human[0], but it shouldn't be a hard case for LIDAR-equipped self-driving car. They were not doing Tesla-style stunts with "we'll drive only with a visual-spectrum camera". They had a suite of sensors on-board.
I expect it'll turn out that either it was Uber-specific problem (e.g. software bug, or lying about LIDAR capabilities, or both), or a deeper problem in sensor tech for self-driving cars in general. The second case would be really disappointing, as - given all that has been published so far - one would expect self-driving car tech to avoid accidents like this.
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[0] - I mean, really, a pedestrian going through a road like this with zero reflective lighting? Is it even legal in US? In Poland it isn't.