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 rtkwe on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:30PM (#21466142)

Part of path planning will involve vehicle dynamics, breaking, acceleration and steering response, and the envelope of the vehicle. All of those will heavily impact how a car should drive.

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by lovehashbrowns on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:15PM (#21466688)

But that's something the AI can learn fairly easily, isn't it? The difficulty in this case wasn't that the AI had issues figuring out the handling of the SUV, it's that it had issues detecting a pedestrian and a dangerous situation. You can still run into these issues on a bicycle, with a much lesser chance of killing people.

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by dkonofalski on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:52PM (#21467108)

This is totally true but the issue was more with the methodology of the detection rather than the detection itself. Regardless of the type of vehicle, the software wasn't good enough for real-world testing.

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