Re:Woman run over by Cruise driverless car in San Francisco
by The_suffocated on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @03:15AM
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While news media are over-reactive to accidents involving self-driving cars, if such an accident is caused some vulnerability in the driving algorithm that is not so easy to fix or improve, its impact is potentially widespread, because the same vulnerability is shared by other cars.
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Re:Woman run over by Cruise driverless car in San Francisco
by jstarfish on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @05:11PM
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To be fair to Cruise, training data for situations like this is going to be sparse.
Most of us will drive for an entire lifetime and never come across a body in the road.
Re:Woman run over by Cruise driverless car in San Francisco
by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @06:05PM
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Also, what are you even supposed to do if another car strikes a pedestrian and launches them directly in front of your car?
Aggressively braking to minimize the damage is probably the best you can do, and it seems like that's what the car did.