Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Pedestrian.

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40. no a woman killed herself by walking into traffic.

And I am sorry but while I have no doubt you are as safe a human driver as possible you just do not posses the ability to take into consideration all of the variables these things are able to.


https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_sees_the_road


This is a three year old video but there are several examples in it of what the cars take into account when driving down the road and there is a specific example that gets almost exactly to your point. in one of the examples there is a cyclist on the left hand corner that can not be seen by the naked eye yet the car identifies through it's sensors as a cyclist before the human can even see it and it starts to predict that cyclists actions all while also monitoring and predicting all the other objects around it. In this example the cyclist proceeds to run a red light and while the human driven cars fail to see him and almost hit him the autonymous vehicle predicts his crossing and does not move till he is clear.

You might be the safest driver in the world but you just can not compete with this level of awareness.

As a side note the woman chasing the duck in an electric vehicle is hilarious and worth watching the video just to see the car observe this.