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Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com)
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.
well if you remove the Uber car, there is still a good chance she would have been killed. If the victim was never in the street, they never would have been killed
When good automotive engineers grow up, they are taught to apply science instead of bankster BS such as AI.
So they set up hundreds of test cases and check their code to properly deal with each one. Only then they release their system into public roads.
That is how Bosch or Thyssen Krupp develops software controlled servo steering systems. How Daimler develops their various assist systems.
Uber is a bunch of posers with too much money to burn.
The killing is an almost classic test case. It can be easily sumulated with a cable pulled dummy pedestrian. Why not done????
I talked to a Daimler autopilot researcher more than 20 years ago. He said they would not use AI because you can't make engineering predictions about its behavior. AI is a bunch of shit tricks which are wholly unsafe and opaque. Good for impressing politicians and other stupid laymen, useful for harmless finance voodoo. Dangerous in life critical software.