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Uber self-driving car flipped here in AZ
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Canuck
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Kant.Ing
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There were several accidents like this... Although the Uber car had right of way, it might be that the autonomous driving habit is so unlike human that it tricked the human driver.
Tam
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I think in traffic law, Uber is fine because the left turning car is supposed to yield but it hit the Uber instead.
It's possible that the unyielding car thought that any competent driver would speed up or slow down when they encountered an aggressive driver doing a very fast left turn to beat the cross traffic.
Mathematically speaking, Uber should be able to avoid accidents caused by aggressive drivers in the first place which is solvable with a standard coding of speed, location, and predicted paths of surround cars.
It the system is unable to do so, it should hand over to human so they can use their skills and judgments to drive instead.
Police: The self-driving Uber in the Arizona crash was hit crossing an intersection on yellow
Some more details.
Uber was in far right lane (3 lanes total) driving through the yellow light. Sounds like middle and left lanes had cars which stopped.
Left turning car went (since it seemed other cars were yielding to him/her). Then hit the Uber Volvo going through the yellow, which then proceeded to hit a telephone pole and flip onto its side (see diagram and discussion in the article).
I can easily see this scenario playing out along entrances to shopping malls, etc...(not just at an intersection). We see this all the time. The left two lanes stop and leave a courtesy gap for a car to turn into a parking lot etc... The car turns and usually noses into the far right lane hoping not to get hit. With human drivers the far right lane driver notices that there's something going on, and will slow down/yield. The car then goes through into the parking lot, etc... then everyone closes the gap.
So somehow the autonomous car will have to somehow recognize these driver scenarios to prevent these types of accidents from happening.
Some more details.
Uber was in far right lane (3 lanes total) driving through the yellow light. Sounds like middle and left lanes had cars which stopped.
Left turning car went (since it seemed other cars were yielding to him/her). Then hit the Uber Volvo going through the yellow, which then proceeded to hit a telephone pole and flip onto its side (see diagram and discussion in the article).
I can easily see this scenario playing out along entrances to shopping malls, etc...(not just at an intersection). We see this all the time. The left two lanes stop and leave a courtesy gap for a car to turn into a parking lot etc... The car turns and usually noses into the far right lane hoping not to get hit. With human drivers the far right lane driver notices that there's something going on, and will slow down/yield. The car then goes through into the parking lot, etc... then everyone closes the gap.
So somehow the autonomous car will have to somehow recognize these driver scenarios to prevent these types of accidents from happening.
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