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by close04 2295 days ago
The IP wasn't the problem in the accident, rather the implementation. Simplified, the software was tuned in favor of ignoring obstacles as false positives. By the time the system acknowledged the immediate danger it was too late. No tech, no matter how good the IP, could stand up to being tweaked like this.

And the emergency breaking relied on the human operator but the system was not designed to warn the operator.