[kodis]

I sure couldn't have reacted quickly enough to have prevented this collision. I'd expect the car to have better reflexes then I do, but given the little time from when the pedestrian first showed up on camera and the time when the collision occurred, I doubt that there was anything that the car could have done, regardless of the sophistication of its software.

[stefan_]

An autonomous vehicle obviously shouldn't exceed a speed where it's stopping distance exceeds it's vision capabilities, since next time it might as well be a tree trunk. That's sometimes difficult for humans to gauge, but then we want autonomous cars so they can make these calculations (and they are much better equipped to).

[ashelmire]

That’s a good point. But in this situation I think we’d probably find that the driver wasn’t at fault.

[freehunter]

Uber clearly has a very terrible problem that their sensors did not pick this up and stop in time, but yeah... if what I saw as a human driver matched what the video camera saw and I hit the brakes the microsecond I saw them, my car still would have hit the person. Brakes aren't magic, and human vision has its limitations.

Still... IR should have seen this.

[steveax]

Video has shit dynamic range compared to the human eye.

[emodendroket]

If the brakes were applied the collision may not have been avoided but it could have been at a lower speed.