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Re:Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck by chris11 on Monday May 07, 2018 @03:04PM (#17015478)
> This revolution should have started with mundane tasks, such as city street sweepers and perhaps garbage trucks.

Honestly I would think that automating a slow moving vehicle in the city would be a much harder engineering challenge. City driving can be a lot messier than driving on the freeway.

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Re:Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck by 0x00000000 on Monday May 07, 2018 @03:26PM (#17015678)
The stakes are much lower though. A standard car drifting into the oncoming lane is basically death. If it can't handle city driving, the methods are probably too immature to put people's lives against.
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Re:Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck by mrep on Monday May 07, 2018 @06:04PM (#17016852)
Pretty much all interstates have barriers between the directions to prevent head on collisions.
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Re:Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck by oldgradstudent on Monday May 07, 2018 @08:18PM (#17017672)
Hitting a barrier in highway speeds is quite dangerous, even without hitting a car in the oncoming lane.

As the recent Tesla crash showed, even on a divided highway there are plenty of opportunities to cause death and mayhem to the autonomous car and the surrounding vehicles.

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