A self-driving Uber killed a woman. The backup driver pleaded guilty

Re:A self-driving Uber killed a woman. The backup driver ple... by moritonal on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @04:21AM (#37046041)

Having seen the video I struggle to think if I could have stopped in time. The pedestrian was practically invisible and ironically is trust a car with LIDAR better to stop in time.

Question, does anyone know why the lights seem so dim?

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Re:A self-driving Uber killed a woman. The backup driver ple... by NoZebra120vClip on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @04:32AM (#37046116)

There is a nearby overpass with a full-fledged freeway on it, and there are also trees. This was not at an intersection, and as I said elsethread, it is very difficult to properly illuminate this section of road.

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Re:A self-driving Uber killed a woman. The backup driver ple... by dagw on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @04:29AM (#37046095)

Question, does anyone know why the lights seem so dim?

Several people have reported that it's the video that was dim and if you actually went to the road in question it appears much brighter in real life.

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Re:A self-driving Uber killed a woman. The backup driver ple... by planede on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @04:26AM (#37046080)

The video may or may not be representative what you could have seen with the naked eye.

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Re:A self-driving Uber killed a woman. The backup driver ple... by agos on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @05:13AM (#37046377)

I would hope that if you were driving with only a tiny, low dynamic range, compressed video stream as your source of information you would be driving much slower than that.

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