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Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on from the closer-look dept.

gollum123 writes: Uber has reportedly discovered that the fatal crash involving one of its prototype self-driving cars was probably caused by software faultily set up to ignore objects in the road, sources told The Information. Specifically, it was that the system was set up to ignore objects that it should have attended to; Herzberg seems to have been detected but considered a false positive.

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  1. Re:Should you name your self driving car? by goose-incarnated · · Score: 3, Informative

    Should you name your self driving car? If so, are Christine and Kitt off limits?

    ITYM Karr (Knight Automated Roaming Robot) - that was the evil one. Kitt (Knight Industries Two Thousand) was the good one.

    (I feel very old now)

    --
    I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
  2. Skin in the game by iMadeGhostzilla · · Score: 4, Informative

    Excellent point re execs. I read that in England sometime in the middle ages bridge engineers were required after the construction to sleep for two weeks under the bridge -- with their families.

  3. Re:Uber and people who authorized this experiment by stephanruby · · Score: 4, Informative

    If this were a new drug or treatment or medical procedure they would be shut down.

    Uber self-driving tests have been (mostly) shut down.

    Uber makes it sound like they suspended their testing operations voluntarily, but the fact is they lost their testing permits in Arizona, California, and one other state.

    And if there is any testing going now with Uber, it's only happening now in computer simulations, or in mocked up urban environments with fake pedestrians and bicyclists.