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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:48PM (#17147068)
If the system had enough false positives that they decided to disable the braking, it's possible it had enough false positives that the operator would have learned to ignore the alert beep too.
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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by ceejayoz on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:35PM (#17147492)
That, of course, is a reason to go back to the drawing board, not to disable the alerting.
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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:05PM (#17147801)
I'm not making excuses for Uber here. If their system was that broken it should never have left the test course.
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