Can we use Elon as the stand in for the victim?
Comment on Driverless Cruise car runs over woman hit by another driver
balder1991@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Good think it has some good amou of context. But I feel like this kind of incident can only be better analyzed with images and simulations of what happened.
nocturne213@lemm.ee 11 months ago
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 11 months ago
According to the report, the pedestrian was illegally crossing the road at a traffic light with a red light for the pedestrian and a green light for the cars.
The human driven car hit the pedestrian and pushed her into the path of the autonomous car. The autonomous car automatically slammed on the brakes but could not stop in time.
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 11 months ago
I think the problem here is more that it parked on her after hitting her. Presumably a human wouldn’t have done that.
money_loo@lemdro.id 11 months ago
Do you think it would have been better to continue driving over someone? What would you like the car to do after a person is thrown under it? Hover mode?
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 11 months ago
It would have been better to not PARK ON HER LEG. They had to lift the car off her.
It couldn’t have avoided hitting her, but it could have not stopped ON her.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Not from what I’ve seen on some gore videos
Chozo@kbin.social 11 months ago
Unlikely. These SDCs have reaction speeds far faster than any human driver. The biggest issue here is just simple physics; trying to stop a car that's already at speed requires a certain amount of distance, and from what I'm understanding, it's sounding like avoiding hitting the woman was literally impossible in this scenario (short of delaying the initial takeoff, which - in traffic - is a safety hazard in and of itself).
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How was either vehicle going so fast that “breaking aggressively” wasn’t enough to stop them immediately after accelerating….?
This makes no sense without a video