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 CamperBob2 on Thursday November 07, 2019 @01:11AM (#21470867)

Speed limits are generally set too low. Someone driving even slower than the posted limit can often be assumed to be intoxicated or impaired.

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by Piskvorrr on Thursday November 07, 2019 @06:52AM (#21472334)

Sorry, any speed limit will be "too low"; people will consistently drive at appx the speed limit +15%, whatever the number. Shifting the speed limit to old limit1.15 will result in speeds of new limit1.15.

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by CamperBob2 on Friday November 08, 2019 @10:39AM (#21483173)

That's not how it works, because it turns out that drivers are generally not suicidal.

The studies have been done, they've been replicated, and the statistics are very clear. Google the '85th percentile rule'.

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