GM sued over self-driving car crash with motorcyclist
This is what I understand of the event:
Cruise Autonomous Vehicle was driving at 12 MPH.
Motorcyclist was driving at 17 MPH with lane California-legal lane-sharing practice.
Cruise Autonomous Vehicle was moving to the next lane in the left.
Motorcyclist saw that: The lane would be clear so he could have the whole lane for himself so he moved up to take the place of Cruise Autonomous Vehicle that's moving to the next lane.
Cruise Autonomous Vehicle aborted lane-changing and it re-centered itself to the current lane.
But the motorcyclist now was already intending to take that space of the current lane.
Motorcyclist claimed Cruise Autonomous Vehicle knocked him down to the ground at that time but
Cruise Autonomous Vehicle claimed that Motorcyclist "glanced the side of the Cruise … wobbled, and fell over."
So if Motorcyclist's version is true that Cruise hit him then what happened to all the sensors to avoid hitting him? May be the system is good at front but not so good on sides?
If Cruise Autonomous Vehicle's version is true then there's nothing anyone can do because the motorcyclist was aiming and successfully hit the Cruise!
I hope Tesla will have 360 degree video recordings to confirm who hit who in a similar incidence!
We'll know soon enough who's fault it is if GM Cruise Autonomous Vehicle has LIDAR as well as video recordings!
This is what I understand of the event:
Cruise Autonomous Vehicle was driving at 12 MPH.
Motorcyclist was driving at 17 MPH with lane California-legal lane-sharing practice.
Cruise Autonomous Vehicle was moving to the next lane in the left.
Motorcyclist saw that: The lane would be clear so he could have the whole lane for himself so he moved up to take the place of Cruise Autonomous Vehicle that's moving to the next lane.
Cruise Autonomous Vehicle aborted lane-changing and it re-centered itself to the current lane.
But the motorcyclist now was already intending to take that space of the current lane.
Motorcyclist claimed Cruise Autonomous Vehicle knocked him down to the ground at that time but
Cruise Autonomous Vehicle claimed that Motorcyclist "glanced the side of the Cruise … wobbled, and fell over."
So if Motorcyclist's version is true that Cruise hit him then what happened to all the sensors to avoid hitting him? May be the system is good at front but not so good on sides?
If Cruise Autonomous Vehicle's version is true then there's nothing anyone can do because the motorcyclist was aiming and successfully hit the Cruise!
I hope Tesla will have 360 degree video recordings to confirm who hit who in a similar incidence!
We'll know soon enough who's fault it is if GM Cruise Autonomous Vehicle has LIDAR as well as video recordings!