OT Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1GV296

 

Before or after?

 

I hope that's a programmable thing. I'd prefer about 10 minutes after. Or as @HCP would say, eleven minutes.

 

Well, as long as we're letting driverless cars plow into people we might as well legalize drunk driving. Fuck it right?

 

uh...

 

That's pure bullshit.

 

If every car was autonomous and there were no pedestrians around, surely there would be less accidents.

That isn't the problem, it is that the tech isn't ready to mix with current situations.

In this video you can see the scene and how well lit it would be that you would notice pedestrians on the edges and a good human driver would swerve away from them even if there is no indication they were going to enter the travel lane.


Same as it you see a cop with someone pulled over, if there is room you get over.

Right now if the self driving car technically has the right of way, watch the fuck out.

 

There is miles of open land outside Vegas headed to Kingman Az. They can build test cities if they want and try and advance this some before they unleash it on the public.

 

If you call one of these to come get you in front of say, WalMart. Can they do it? Damn if I can see how, none of the pedestrians are following any rule.

 

I was really hoping they wouldn't test it in any public forum. Like someone said, build test cities and try it out there, have props and motion activated scenarios or some ish.

I knew this was going to happen, I just really hoped it didn't. Sucks, we are still realistically 10 years away from this being anywhere near consumer ready.

And honestly, do we really NEED autonomous driving?

 

Damn! I must concede the point.

 

So if someone runs out on front of a car from no where, if it's a self driving car, it's not their fault?