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 jerf on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:16PM (#17146164)

I wrote it carefully and I stand by it. If it can't deal with it because your system is getting too confused for any reason, you don't have a self-driving system. Being able to function enough like a human that the safety features on the car don't produce an unacceptable result is a bare minimum requirement to have a self-driving car.

This isn't horseshoes, as the old saying goes. I unapologetically have a high bar here.

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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by YeGoblynQueenne on Thursday May 24, 2018 @08:17PM (#17149643)

Far as I can tell, the done thing in the industry is to disable all other safety systems (or to not have any in the first place) and to delegate safety entirely to the self-driving AI.

The charitable interpretation of this is that the industry believes that self-driving AI is a safety feature of greater quality than, say, lane assist or auto-breaking.

The less charitable one is that they find it too much work to integrate their AI to other safety systems. Which, to be fair, is really going to be a lot of extra work, on top of developping self-driving.

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