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 CodeWriter23 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:25PM (#21470130)

I haven’t had the experience of driving in proximity to a Waymo vehicle like you have. Your statement could be viewed as taking a conservative approach to that automation is in itself a shortcut. That of course is speculation; I feel confident that when it comes to automated driving by virtue of the infancy of the technology, there are things we don’t know that we don’t know yet.

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by dkonofalski on Thursday November 07, 2019 @07:47PM (#21479072)

>Your statement could be viewed as taking a conservative approach to that automation is in itself a shortcut.

Can you expand on that? I'm not sure I follow what you're saying here.

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by CodeWriter23 on Sunday November 10, 2019 @05:41PM (#21500648)

I’m thinking the conservative approach in this context is a shortcut to solving all of the problems. For example, hitting the brakes at any unrecognized object keeps the passengers safe, and is a shortcut in that the recognition models for that particular object don’t have to be ironed out. Or, selecting a test city like Chandler, approx 60 years old, having the signal pole and crosswalks positioned at the same offset from every intersection is in itself a shortcut. That tech will never work in The Hollywood Hills, for example.

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