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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by georgeecollins on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:53PM (#21465712)
> with 0.2 seconds left before impact, the car sounded an audio alarm

It takes about 300ms for your brain to react to unexpected stimulus, so the alarm is useless in this case. Sad.

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by mrguyorama on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:31PM (#21466864)
The alarm's entire purpose is to shift the blame to the engineer in the driver's seat
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