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by atomical 2996 days ago
> Then there is the question of whether the Uber-supplied video accurately represents the lighting conditions at the time...

Why would that matter? The issue here is that the LIDAR system failed to detect the pedestrian.
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newnewpdro 2996 days ago
It's of tremendous importance from the perspective of public perception of who's at fault.

If the average observer watching the published video arrives at a conclusion of "well I would have hit that person too, she appeared out of nowhere in front of the car", it obviously matters.

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atomical 2996 days ago
It's not important at all. There's a bug in Uber's software. That's what we should be talking about.
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mannykannot 2996 days ago
It does seem that there is a problem with the vehicle's lidar or the associated software, so does it not strike you as strange that the story being pushed claimed that the victim "came out of the shadows", which is a misleading irrelevance if lidar is the primary sensing technology? Especially as the unrealistically dark video does not even seem to fit that story.
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atomical 2996 days ago
Yes. That's why I am posting in this thread.
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mannykannot 2996 days ago
Sorry, I misunderstood your point.
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