It has been almost two months since the very sad news about the collision of an autonomously driven Uber vehicle with a pedestrian crossing the road, which cost the accident her life. Almost immediately after the accident, an investigation was launched into what actually caused the accident. Speculation about the possible cause was also fueled by the release of a video from a car camera that captured the collision. While one side claimed that the woman herself was to blame for the accident, who stepped into the path of the moving car without hesitation, the other was convinced that the fault lay with the car, which should have used sensors to predict and miniIt was the absence of braking or changing direction that raised big questions.
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According to information that appeared on the Internet yesterday and was cited by the Reuters agency, for example, the fault is really on the car's side. Its sensors evaluated the obstacle as a "false positive", which simply means that the car has become convinced that it is nothing major and therefore there is no need to adjust the driving in any way. However, various garbage flying in the air such as plastic bags, not pedestrians, are usually evaluated as "false positives". However, such an erroneous evaluation can apparently only occur when it is incorrectly set (for example, too benevolently), which it probably was in this case. However, since this is internal information from Uber's investigation, which is not yet publicly available anywhere, it is still too early to draw conclusions.
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It is difficult to say at the moment what steps will follow if it is proven that the accident is really a fault in the setup and not a technique. But if the system was set too benevolently, in theory it would only be sufficient to tighten it. The question, however, is whether it will be possible to find exactly the border that is safe and at the same time ideal for driving. That is, you will probably be able to find it. But will it be the first attempt or will someone pay for this search again with their lives?
Well, mainly she had nothing to do there... I doubt that the driver would have stopped in time let alone the car (Uber)
So the Uber car gets a lifetime…
I'm curious, how do you push the car into the prison?
And most importantly, read your article – where you write that it's not yet closed – so the status with a clear message is just to get people to click through – you're starting to get tired of "tabloid" statuses….
moreover, the fact that the object (person) was evaluated as a false positive is not a trivial error. Really just a tabloid headline…
These tabloid headlines primarily serve only to motivate people to open the article and thereby increase the readership of the website. The article itself doesn't have to be worth anything...
I have a question. I'm sure there are a lot of you here who are at a high level of understanding technology, or at least can yell Hey SiriHow many years of development do we still have before such a car will decide for itself?
Honestly I don't know who the financHe's testing Uber, but if it was someone normal, he would have definitely managed it himself yesterday?
I guess! :D