She crossed at a spot that was pitch black. Sneakers come into view maybe 40 feet away. Clearly visible at 20. Is that enough time to stop at that speed? Not sure I would have stopped in time.
You don’t need to stop. Slowing from 40 to 30mph decreases the fatality rate by an order of magnitude. Maybe the car shouldn’t have been going above the speed limit if the conditions were so poor that it couldn’t plausibly see humans walking right in front of it.
That's an argument intended only to shift blame and distract. The car was going 38 in a 35 which is well within the legal margin of error on a speedometer[1]. For all we know, the speedometer read exactly 35.
There's enough blame to go around between the driver who was obviously texting and the woman illegally jaywalking, you don't need to invent a false controversy.
I mean... I even provided a source and everything. And you threw that all away with a glib "nah I read somewhere that you're wrong".
Please read the link. I may still be wrong, but by my math, the car was a Volvo XC90 which means the acceptable margin of error on the speedometer is +/- 3 miles per hour.
Nice try, but these cars have GPS. Trying to evenly pin the blame for the pedestrian’s death on her is insane. Talk about trying to “shift blame and distract.”
Exactly. Humans could have swerved or slowed down at least some in time to lessen the impact.
If you replayed the exact scenario the chance of the same outcome is likely absurdly high with the robocar. If you replayed it with the same human it would likely be much better. If you replayed it but varied the human driver, maybe even better than that.
only person who bothered to point this out. A camera from the car doesn't even give the picture a human would see or what a million other sensors would see.
