Here’s the video that got Uber in trouble. Are they using cameras or lidar?
Tempe Police release in-car video from fatal self-driving Uber crash
Elon has eluded that lidar can’t “see” under certain conditions.
The visual evidence is in stark contrast to the verbal statement before the release in many ways.
1) pedestrian was slowly crossing left to right and was struck by the right fender. Sudden unavoidable accidents occur on the same side of the vehicle as where the pedestrian enters the roadway.
2) the Uber vehicle was over driving its headlights. You should be able to stop the car based on information you can see - in the field of view of the headlights.
Were they on low or high beams? The slow moving pedestrian could have been standing in the center of the roadway, and still been run over. At night, for visible light cameras to work, you need active illumination. (The headlights did not work well enough).
3) for accidents unlike this, where pedestrians are entering the roadway rather than leaving the roadway, it makes sense for the car to do physics on objects it sees off roadway. This means path, trajectory and center of gravity shifted with respect to center of support. Where supports, by definition, show no motion with respect to the ground at the point of contact - like the stationary foot when you start walking.
There might be different rules for city people vs country people (where there are no street lights).
The car was over driving its lights.
The person was effectively standing in the roadway.
The automous part of the vehicle did not, does not work.
Executives should field test their cars personally before putting them on public streets. I think there was a video of a Volvo failing this test 2 years ago. The executive was not happy, but the speed was low.
I wonder what the track record of corrective action was...
Anyway, a country person thinks they were over driving their headlights and thus at fault, if held to the same standard as a human.
A city person may blame the city for providing spotty street lighting with shadows.
It all depends on the jury.
