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by bumby 2168 days ago
“The self-driving car was fully autonomous at the time at the accident” [1]

It appears the mitigation for a high false positive (I.e., nuisance alarm) was to program in a delay (I.e., “action suppression”) which inadvertently introduced a worse hazard, the timetable from it is in the link below

[1]https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/06/uber_self_driving_c...

https://dms.ntsb.gov/public/62500-62999/62978/629713.pdf