Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal...
by jcranmer on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @10:00AM
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> The police reported that the pedestrian, wearing black, entered the roadway randomly and unexpectedly, directly in front of a moving vehicle, and concluded that a human driver would not have reacted in time either.
That police report is at best sloppy and unwilling to do anything other than take limited evidence at face value and at worst an active attempt at spreading misinformation.
The pedestrian was crossing from the median across two lanes of traffic, and was struck on the right side of the right-hand lane of traffic (at least 75% of the way through crossing the road). Even the video in question (which, as many have noted, is far worse quality than anything a driver would be seeing) shows the pedestrian a good second before impact, which is enough time to at least initiate emergency braking even for a human--and the car shows no sign of having done this.
That police report is at best sloppy and unwilling to do anything other than take limited evidence at face value and at worst an active attempt at spreading misinformation.
The pedestrian was crossing from the median across two lanes of traffic, and was struck on the right side of the right-hand lane of traffic (at least 75% of the way through crossing the road). Even the video in question (which, as many have noted, is far worse quality than anything a driver would be seeing) shows the pedestrian a good second before impact, which is enough time to at least initiate emergency braking even for a human--and the car shows no sign of having done this.