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Self driving Uber vehicle kills pedestrian
March 19, 2018 at 4:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2018 at 4:35 pm by vorlon13.)
On the news today. Car was in automatic mode with a human overseer, still managed to kill a pedestrian, apparently in a crosswalk.
This ain't good.
Uber has suspended their program for now.
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RE: Self driving Uber vehicle kills pedestrian
March 19, 2018 at 4:45 pm
I wonder if it computed that it was better to kill a random pedestrian than an overseer.
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RE: Self driving Uber vehicle kills pedestrian
March 19, 2018 at 4:46 pm
Is someone at Uber going to be tasked with determining if the vehicle had been hacked?
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RE: Self driving Uber vehicle kills pedestrian
March 19, 2018 at 4:53 pm
It's the beginning of the carmageddon!!!
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RE: Self driving Uber vehicle kills pedestrian
March 19, 2018 at 5:14 pm
And once again, here's the self-driving car Volvo made in 2015 that turned out to have pedestrian detection as a premium feature. No, it wasn't merely an optional feature that could be turned off; it was something you HAD TO PAY EXTRA to keep this self-driving car from going all Christine on your ass. And the company themselves didn't bother to pay the extra money:
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RE: Self driving Uber vehicle kills pedestrian
March 19, 2018 at 5:22 pm
But I WANT s self driving car that will identify peds as potential targets.
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RE: Self driving Uber vehicle kills pedestrian
March 19, 2018 at 6:07 pm
Maybe the vehicle thought it was in a GTA simulation.
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RE: Self driving Uber vehicle kills pedestrian
March 19, 2018 at 6:50 pm
I’m glad that Uber is suspending ops in Pittsburgh. This very human truck driver has to deliver there tomorrow.
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