Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set to Stop in an Emergency

Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by mannykannot on Thursday May 24, 2018 @11:26AM (#17144913)

If Volvo's emergency braking were doing that many false positives, then it would be a problem when humans are driving its cars, and I am pretty sure that is not the case, or else the NHTSA, and its equivalents in other countries, would be investigating ordinary Volvos with this feature.

If the claim is that Volvo's system is intervening in valid cases where Uber's system would (arguably) have handled it, then Uber's system is driving too aggressively or is too slow in responding. Humans, when paying attention, can drive Volvo's cars without often triggering the emergency braking.

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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by comex on Thursday May 24, 2018 @11:42AM (#17145089)

I don’t think the “erratic behavior” quote is related to the stock Volvo emergency braking system. The report notes that that also existed and was disabled (justifiably) while Uber’s self-driving system was active. But apparently Uber’s own system had an emergency braking function that was also disabled:

> At 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision[..]

[emphasis mine]

> In Uber’s self-driving system, an emergency brake maneuver refers to a deceleration greater than 6.5 meters per second squared (m/s2).

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