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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by anomaloustho on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:54PM (#17146502)
Based on a TED talk by someone from Google[1]. I think having the car apply the brakes when there’s a possible disturbance causes the car to apply the breaks too much and makes for a really uncomfortable ride.

I think a major effort in self driving is solving the Goldilocks issue of reacting properly to impending accidents, but also not apply uncomfortable breaking if it’s not needed.

Seems like it was too insensitive at that distance.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_...

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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by athenot on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:48PM (#17147060)
There's the third option of slowing down. That's what most human drivers do subconsciously when we see something that we're having trouble identify, and feel it could turn into an obstacle.
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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by r00fus on Friday May 25, 2018 @12:16AM (#17150562)
This too. An electric car would simple decelerate by letting off the gas pedal and having the regen kick in. On a gas car this would be equivalent to a partial braking.

Shouldn't the brake application be not boolean but 0-100% strength based on confidence levels?

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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by Maybestring on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:22PM (#17146823)
>I think a major effort in self driving is solving the Goldilocks issue of reacting properly to impending accidents, but also not apply uncomfortable breaking if it’s not needed.

This is also an issue with current production automatic braking system. One that was largely solved with on track testing, and on road testing logging false triggers with a driver driving. There's no need to risk lives unless you're just cutting corners to avoid the cost of a test track.

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