Comment on Driverless Cruise car runs over woman hit by another driver
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 11 months agoAccording 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.
Would a human have stopped in time? That would depend on the human…
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).
Both vehicles started moving after traffic lights turned green
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
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.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 months ago
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Going "I just hit someone, I'm going to shut down everything and wait for people to come fix this" is a better general approach than "I just hit someone, better back up to make sure I'm not parked right on top of them." That second approach could lead to the vehicle dragging the victim, driving over them a second time, or otherwise making things much worse.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Driving over someone’s leg a second time is a great way to make sure it’s broken.
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not like the car can’t be controlled, if driving off was deemed the correct action, they could have gotten them to over-ride and drive the car off. Driving off is almost never the recommended action in these cases.
Lifting off is by far the safer choice.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Not from what I’ve seen on some gore videos