Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outside of a crosswalk

Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by kjaftaedi on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:54AM (#21462558)

IMHO this has little to do with jaywalking.

All sorts of hazards can come up in the road, such as children running into the street, deer or other animals.

This scenario was bound to happen given that auto-breaking was disabled and the human driver was playing with their phone instead of paying attention to the road, which was the whole reason they were in the car.

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by w0m on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:09PM (#21465888)

> given that auto-breaking was disabled

Only the Volvo auto-breaking was disabled; the Uber software/hardware itself should have handled the situation fine.

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by ghostly_s on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:12PM (#21470331)

Agreed; my thanks to whomever removed the politicizing term "jaywalker" from the submission title, but more importantly shame on the NTSB for using it in this report. Whether or not she was breaking a street-crossing law is entirely irrelevant to the drivers obligation of due diligence.

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