So, the car saw the pedestrian. The car didn\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n
The pedestrian didn\u2019t see anything.<\/p>\n
We blame the car and engineers but when looking at the video there\u2019s something insane to me as a cyclist: you don\u2019t cross a road where people go fast (43 mph, about 70 km\/h), at night in an extremely dark area outside crosswalks, with your bike on the side, without looking, while walking slowly. That\u2019s really asking for death, which happened. On the human side of this accident, the person made a terrible and wrong decision.<\/p>\n
On the car side, people are wondering why the car didn\u2019t stop. Well, what does happen when a vehicle at high velocity abruptly tries to avoid an obstacle? What if instead of happening in the middle of nowhere like in that case, it was happening in a more crowded area, with pedestrians on the sidewalk? Would it be better to hit a front yard to avoid the careless pedestrian, potentially hurting an entire family cooking out?<\/p>\n
The car identified the person 1.3 seconds before impact, which means that an emergency breaking maneuver would have probably gone wrong, killing the person anyway. Then the crash might have killed or injured more people.<\/p>\n
So, the car made the \u201cI\u2019m right to be here\u201d decision while the human being made the \u201cI don\u2019t give a fuck\u201d decision.<\/p>\n
Driverless cars are still totally viable to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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