(03-29-2018, 07:51 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(03-29-2018, 05:55 PM)HandsomeRob86 Wrote: Uber having this car on the road is like hiring a drunk driver for a taxi. There was enough space even in the visible realm for a human to at least slow, a car with lidar and radar should have seen her way before that.

Its coming out now that had UBER left the basic safety features in the volvo intact (the ones from the factory) the car would have likely stopped and prevented the accident.

They have been banned from testing in Arizona and Uber will no longer be testing in Ca (they are not going to renew their lincense to test after California DOT indicated they would investigate the arizona crash also). 

Uber messed up big on this one, in a situation they not only claimed the car could deal with, but do it better than a human, when in fact it did worse.

Have you seen the video?

That lady was crossing in the middle of the night, slow as molasses and it doesn't even look like she was looking in the direction of oncoming traffic.

Yes I watched it multiple times. This is a situation every self driving tech company claims they can handle with ease. Uber couldn't, despite thier claims to the contrary. Its negliance, they put a car out that they claimed could do something that it couldn't which resulted in a death. Thats a huge deal.

People will say she was jaywalking and thier right, but the bigger deal is Uber lying or being so incompetent that they couldn't handle a situation which the tech in the stock vehicle could have. It does not matter that the pedestrian was jay-walking, what matters is that someone was crossing the road and was a big obvious target and the uber mowed her down.

Uber released technology that was no where near ready and activly put the public in danger. Thats what this is about.

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