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 ptidhomme on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:06PM (#21465853)

This seems to be the core problem in my opinion : the category swapping inhibited a timely braking decision.

If so, how come these categories where not encompassed into a more abstract "generic object" whose relative position seems to be getting closer since first detection ? That ought to have triggered the same braking scheme as, say, an unmoving car detection ahead.

I'd go for : utter engineering malpractice.

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by beerandt on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:01PM (#21466529)

I suspect overly aggressive association of unknown objects would have it's own set of side effects.

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by ptidhomme on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:49PM (#21467807)

Well, in my experience, if you're left to balance side-effects, it's that your underlying design is flawed.

But regardless, taking sensor classification (inherently error-prone) at face value is engineering malpractice.

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