pstarr wrote:"Yes, the pedestrian was stupid and was at fault. "
No she wasn't. She was crossing a street. The fault lies with constant pandering and self-justification of the media and the stooges who support technology blindly.
Thoughtful and standardized regulation have no bearing on this incident. Motion detectors can not . . . and will not replace the judgement only a human is capable of. My dog is more intelligent then that Uber vehicle. But my dog is not allowed behind the wheel of a large, dangerous and potentially deadly weapon that a car is in the wrong hands.
Uber should be shut down.
Earth to clueless one. She wasn't crossing at a crosswalk. She wasn't crossing where it was lighted. She wasn't wearing reflective clothing. She wasn't carrying a light. Pretending like it wasn't her fault doesn't add to your credibility. There ARE rules pedestrians are required to follow, for safety reasons.
I'm NOT agreeing with any of your Luddite "technology can't work and can never improve" nonsense. I'm only talking about this type of failure and the need to use effective regulation to minimize the risk, and hopefully prevent too much of it from happening.
Self driving technology can never be perfect and will never prevent anything close to all crashes. It is already showing safer statistics than humans (given their failings), and will get better as cases like this are analyzed and corrected. My problem here is the "informality" of the process, and the continued over-claiming (IMO) of how fast the problems are being solved -- when blatant crashes keep occurring where the car seems to not react at ALL to an obviously dangerous situation.