Re:Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco fo...
by hrishid on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:23PM
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Are you referring to the pedestrian who's almost crossed the crosswalk on the left side of the screen? This is still a proper yield as far as I can see. The car just enters the intersection before that person has finished crossing.
Re:Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco fo...
by stefan_ on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:25PM
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That's already the problem. Don't enter the intersection if you can not speedily finish your turn. There is also already another ped on collision course the moment they start moving forward.
Re:Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco fo...
by dllu on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:35PM
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While technically right, you'll never be able to get anywhere in a big city if you drive like that.
Re:Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco fo...
by cmendel on Saturday April 18, 2020 @10:09PM
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Immaterial. I don't want self driving cars driving like Bostonians or worse, New yorkers. Self driving cars need to follow the law, drive defensively, and be conservative. If that means that they take 10 additional minutes to get to their destination so what? The alternative is that the car kills someone because of impatience, that is to say an improperly weighted time value function, which I would think no one wants.
Re:Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco fo...
by chrischen on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:18PM
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I mean it's not 100% of the way there. Plus human drivers do that all the time and MUCH worse things. I'm talking from the point of view as a frequent Uber/Lyft passenger.
Re:Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco fo...
by dmitriid on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:19PM
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Casually starting a turn and correctly identifying that the person on the right slowed down, stopped and turned to face the other crosswalk.
You can see it on the top right camera.
Re:Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco fo...
by stefan_ on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:30PM
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I take it the ped at 12:22 also "turned"?
Re:Watch Zoox’s autonomous car drive around San Francisco fo...
by dmitriid on Sunday April 19, 2020 @02:34AM
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This one looks like a regular situation handled like a regular driver would handle it: the person was a reasonably long distance away from the intersection and by the time the car got to the crosswalk it was probably going at a high enough speed when suddenly braking would cause problems.
But yeah, it does look as something to re-analyse.
Companies actually put this kind of footage up without ever reviewing it?