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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by dpark on Thursday May 24, 2018 @09:57PM (#17150053)
The question was why the car doesn’t brake early. “Because scanning every few milliseconds” is not an answer. Scanning frequency is irrelevant to the fact that emergency braking is not a reasonable strategy in general.

Safe driving often does require slowing down in the face of insufficient information. If a human driver sees an inattentive pedestrian about to intersect traffic, they will slow down. “Drive until collision is unavoidable” is a failing strategy.

And anyway, jerky driving is a symptom of late braking, not early braking.

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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by bonesss on Friday May 25, 2018 @03:12AM (#17151318)
> And anyway, jerky driving is a symptom of late braking, not early braking.

I see it as more than just jerkyness, I see a massive safety issue in traffic. If your autonomous car is slamming on the brakes spontaneously there's a lot more opportunities for other drivers to plow into you from behind.

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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by naasking on Friday May 25, 2018 @12:01AM (#17150512)
> The question was why the car doesn’t brake early.

No it's not, the issue was jerky driving.

> “Drive until collision is unavoidable” is a failing strategy.

No kidding.

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