• @[email protected]
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    299 months ago

    Well if you know you need backup with edge cases, why isnt there a human in the car with controls?

    • @[email protected]
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      89 months ago

      Not only that, but no matter whether it can identify a person as a person, cars shouldn’t be driving over objects that are child sized or larger.

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        9 months ago

        These cars won’t even drive over a fire hose laid out across the road (this was literally a test we did regularly when I worked on Waymo’s SDCs). They definitely won’t drive over a person (intentionally).

        Inertia is a factor here. Cars can’t stop on a dime. By the time the pedestrian was knocked in front of the SDC, there was likely not enough time to have possibly avoided hitting her, just due to physics.