Self-Driving Uber SUV Kills Woman In Tempe

[davsel]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...h-avoided.html

Speaking to CNET, Cortica's CEO Igal Raichelgauz said the firm's self-driving AI system detected Ms Herzberg 0.9 seconds before impact.

At this point the car was around 50 feet (15 metres) away.

He said the autonomous car's cameras and radar system should have had enough time to pick up the pedestrian and react to the situation.

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The car swerves into the open lane on the left by a few feet and the woman survives.

Exactly.

What she was used to.

[Duman]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...h-avoided.html

Well, the numbers line up as far as timing. So the sensors detected the pedestrian at about the same time the first tennis-shoe-pixel is seen in the headlights.....

[davsel]

Well, the numbers line up as far as timing. So the sensors detected the pedestrian at about the same time the first tennis-shoe-pixel is seen in the headlights.....

Speculation by the experts in that article - I do not believe it is based on actual data from the car.
The sensors on the car should have been able to "see" her long before 50 feet.

[OtterbatHellcat]

All of this self driving car horseshit is only worth it, if it saves even ONE life.

[Duman]

GM can't even make an ignition switch properly, and we think they're going to develop self driving car ?!? HA !!

[Gman]

Fatal driverless crash: Radar-maker says Uber disabled safety systems

Uber reportedly disabled safety systems on the autonomous Volvo XC90 that killed a pedestrian Stateside last week, according to the makers of the car's sensors.

"We don't want people to be confused or think it was a failure of the technology that we supply for Volvo, because that's not the case," Zach Peterson, a spokesman for Aptiv, told Bloomberg.

Uber declined to comment to The Register, though it did confirm that it wrote the software the car was running. Aptiv, a UK-based maker of car parts including radars and cameras, did not respond to our enquiries. The company was formerly known as Delphi Automotive. In 2015 Delphi stated, and later denied, that a vehicle it was using for self-driving technology trials was involved in a near-miss with a rival car operated by Google.

Volvo told Bloomberg it was waiting for the accident report to be published by American authorities before it would comment.

Uber's modified XC90s are fitted with front, side and rear-facing cameras "watching for braking vehicles, crossing pedestrians, traffic lights, and signage," according to a document produced by the controversial taxi app firm's Advanced Technologies Group. The cars are also fitted with a top-mounted LIDAR sensor with all-round coverage.

Video footage of the moments leading up to the crash released online by police show Herzberg appearing out of the gloom and becoming visible to the car's front-facing camera just seconds before impact. The cabin-facing camera fitted to the Volvo also showed the driver appearing to allow her attention to wander in the moments before Herzberg became visible.

Crash investigators are expected to be focusing on why the XC90's sensor suite appeared to have failed to detect Herzberg crossing the road with her bike, particular the LIDAR as it uses lasers to see through the dark.

The relatively low-resolution camera footage released by police is unlikely to represent what the car's LIDAR and radar packages should have picked up. Whether the Uber developers who wrote the car's software suite had programmed it to slow the car down on detection of an unknown, unclassified object moving into the car's path is something El Reg expects the investigation to uncover.

Although Uber voluntarily announced it was suspending all further testing, Arizona governor Doug Ducey later suspended the company from continuing with tests on the US state's roads.

[Gman]

Uber gives up autonomous vehicle testing rights in Calif.

Uber will not renew its permit to test autonomous vehicles on California public roads when it expires Saturday. And the company will have some explaining to do if it wants to get a new permit.

California's Department of Motor Vehicles told the ride-hailing service in a letter Tuesday that it will lose testing privileges after Saturday. If Uber wants to return, it will need a new permit and has to address investigations into a fatal crash in Arizona last week.

[sniper7]

Well I called it. The real fault is with the woman crossing the street on her bike. Self driving or not, how many deer do people hit each year because they dart out in front of cars.
I feel bad for the babysitter of the self driving car for having to live through that and now remember crushing some bicyclist due to their own stupid decisions.
I can go on and on about bikes anyway, they need serious regulation to be on the roads as it is.

[sniper7]

Oh....and who really buys a Volvo any more? I can’t believe they are in business