News: Random pedestrian selflessly gives life to forward science of autonomous cars.
03-22-2018, 01:22 AMQuote: (03-22-2018 12:13 AM)BlueMark Wrote:
Yes the pedestrian was foolish to be casually walking across the street like that.
But the car had ample time to hit the breaks, even if we assume that its software could only see the exact same imagery that we see in the video, subject to limitations of the camera's visible light sensor. Not enough time to actually avoid hitting the pedestrian but maybe enough to slow down enough to make the collision non-fatal.
In reality the car's sensors should have been able to sense a person even in the dark, without being limited to the visible light spectrum. Check out an example of LIDAR footage here: http://archive.is/rfeDk
Yes, I think you're right. The video may in fact be misleading due to the limitations of the camera. Uber could be in deep shit here, as well as the driver. An engineer who advises Google on self-driving cars wrote that the car's LIDAR and other systems should have detected the woman crossing and stopped:
http://ideas.4brad.com/it-certainly-looks-bad-uber
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On this empty road, the LIDAR is very capable of detecting her. If it was operating, there is no way that it did not detect her 3 to 4 seconds before the impact, if not before. She would have come into range just over 5 seconds before impact.