OT Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

[bodyman5000 and 1]

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

 

[barfo]

Robots. You think you can have sex with them, but they'll kill you.

barfo

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Robots. You think you can have sex with them, but they'll kill you.

barfo

Before or after?

 

[barfo]

Before or after?

During, preferably.

barfo

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

During, preferably.

barfo

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

 

[jonnyboy]

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

 

[BonesJones]

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

uh...

“it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway."

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

uh...

That's pure bullshit.

 

[BrianFromWA]

"You don't get to the Matrix without cracking a few eggs."
-silicon valley

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

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.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

"You don't get to the Matrix without cracking a few eggs."
-silicon valley

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.

 

[MarAzul]

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.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

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'm not seeing a problem with a few of them getting run over.

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

 

[Strenuus]

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?

 

[BrianFromWA]

there are 4 companies driving AI cars all over San Fran as we speak. A friend was hired at one of them.

 

[MarAzul]

I'm not seeing a problem with a few of them getting run over.

Damn! I must concede the point.

 

[BonesJones]

That's pure bullshit.

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?

 

[stampedehero]

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

Robot car needed glasses.

 

[stampedehero]

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.

Those test cities should be factories that will produce the same products as we import from China
Might as well get two goals.

 

[barfo]

I suppose these same arguments were made the first time a horseless carriage killed a pedestrian. Would have saved a lot of lives if that was the end of the then-new tech.

barfo

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

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?

Of course they are at fault. Just like when I ran over and killed a kid chasing a ball that one time.

Oh wait, I saw the kids playing ball by the road and slowed way down below the speed limit and had time to stop when the kid ran in front of me.

These cars aren't there yet.

 

[jonnyboy]

uh...

I wonder if Drunky McDriversteen could get cut such slack in the same situation?

 

[andalusian]

Let me just say that from the companies that invest in self-driving technology, this happening to Uber does not shock me. If it happened to a Google car, I would be really surprised.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Self-driving cars are really going to open things up for us dogs.

 

[andalusian]

Self-driving cars are really going to open things up for us dogs.

It's a male issue, not a dog issue. If you were not so proud you could ask the GPS how to take you to PetSmart.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

It's a male issue, not a dog issue. If you were not so proud you could ask the GPS how to take you to PetSmart.

If there's a place he needs to go it is PetSMART.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Saw the video. I would say that based on the video I give myself about a 5 percent chance of having avoided it. Maybe a 10 percent chance of clipping the bike and maybe only critically injuring the pedestrian. The passenger in the vehicle was just that, a passenger. Not watching shit.

The chance is only that low because anything other than being focused on the road at the exact moment the pedestrian comes into view and wham.

Both hands on the wheel and eyes on the road COMPLETELY, she would live.

Just changing the radio station or drinking some water at the right moment and she's dead.

 

[MARIS61]

uh..it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway.".

Fake news.

Here's the dashcam.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/21/dashcam-video-deadly-self-driving-uber-crash-released.html

Any competent human driver would have braked in time to avoid contact.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Just the video. Watch it in the dark.


Just watched Maris' link and seemed brighter but I've had the lights off for an hour. Eyes adjusted to the dark?

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I'd even say the chance of avoiding it changed every ten years. I know I'm not as attentive at 43 than at 23 or even 33. I've been trying to pay more attention anyway, this helps.