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 falcolas on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:09AM (#21462708)

So long as everything works perfectly, sure. But there's nobody in place to hit the brakes in an emergency scenario. Releasing a button as an emergency measure seems a bit unreliable, since humans tend to clench their muscles when there's an emergency.

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by Piskvorrr on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:03AM (#21463838)

Worse:

AT+RELEA

NO CARRIER

Unless the car brakes the very instant the connection drops (and not when the timeout propagates through the networking stack), now you have two problems.

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