The video quality makes it seem like even at full attention you would see it too late, but most eyes see a lot better than that.
Ofc the driver here is paying near 0 attention.
As others have said, the camera brightness can be altered, just like turning the brightness up on a tv.
What seems odd to me, is the lady pushing her bike across the road, takes over 2seconds from when the lights first illuminate her shoes, to the point she turns her head to face the car.
Dont know if alcohol et al was a factor, but in some incidences the UK police would have possibly have labelled this as "death by misadventure" or something to that effect. She just doesnt react.
Either way I wouldnt have been on my phone like the driver was, I've had a person release an animal in front of me at night from a central reservation of a dual carriageway with me nearest the armco barriers. The two cars behind me which I had previously overtaking that were now blocking the road slowing up the traffic also alerted me to something being up before I saw the block in the central reservation crouched down.
I thought it was odd to see someone crouched down and then I saw the what looked like a munctjac deer being released so I wasnt going to hang around for what seemed like a life threatening trap which could have been security services.
And I say that because I met Parker, Evans, and Rimmington, Parker in one walking location years ago and then Evans and Rimmingtom together whilst out hill walking in another location. Their driver who dropped them off from a black ford galaxy or vw sharon type vehicle kind of alerted me to something being up as I watched them from a distance.
She absolutely does seem to come out of nowhere as she is crossing in the shadow of a bridge. But I do recall a previous incident where someone had gone to the site of a similar night time accident and showed how visibility was MUCH better than the car camera suggested - car camera seemed very darkened. I wonder was it similar here?
EDIT: May actually have been this very accident - I can't find the link though
Yeah that was this one, the camera doesn't do the actual visibility justice. If it was proven the cyclist wasn't visible, AND the driver was proven to be paying attention, I'm sure she would've been exonerated.
But the driver wasn't paying attention. They were watching stuff on their phone and killed someone. They were responsible for the car, not Uber and its self-driving systems - that she was responsible for testing and overseeing.
I'm kinda happy for her that her punishment is fairly mild - I mean after all she'll have to live with the guilt for the rest of her life - but she's definitely responsible for it.
And this is the very reason I am not interested at all in anything self-driving below a _proven_ level 5. I either drive or I don't, it's as simple as that. Expecting people to watch over the driver's shoulder is b$ both from the expecting side and from the promising side and I'm actually angry that it is the accepted premise nowadays. It's easy to punish the failing supervisor, and ignore a system built on out-of-touch premises - because ask any psychologist and they will confirm that constant attention cannot be expected from regular humans (and no, calling you supervisor driver won't make you superhuman). On the anecdote side, I disabled my cruise control after I've been told - more than once - that I drive more reckless with it active, trying to keep the cruise speed and not touch any pedal/button in moments where it was rather dangerous to do so. And they were right, I had to recognize - turns out I'm human too.
> They were responsible for the car, not Uber and its self-driving systems - that she was responsible for testing and overseeing.
I agree with your point about the driver but disagree with this. Tesla is testing it's product on people without their consent. In this case, their technology failed and it resulted in the death of someone who did not consent to being part of a autonomous vehicle test.
> I'm kinda happy for her that her punishment is fairly mild - I mean after all she'll have to live with the guilt for the rest of her life - but she's definitely responsible for it.
This is an odd statement. She killed someone. Feeling bad about it is irrelevant imo. And living with guilt is not the equivalent of time served.
> even at full attention you would see it too late
You mentioned that people see better than cameras in scenarios like this, but I think there's a broader point to be made: Do not over-drive your headlights. If a driver cannot stop within the distance they can see ahead, they are objectively going too fast.
Even that wouldn't help here. The headlight illuminate straight, not wide (as to not blind oncoming traffic).
This person on the bike stepped in from the side.
That said, DOT headlights are significantly worse than ECE headlights when it comes to illuminating the road in a way that I am comfortable. Even with high-beams on the throw of the light for DOT lights is significantly less than for ECE.
And I've driven the same car with the same lights on both continents (BMW 3-series w/ LED).
What seems odd to me, is the lady pushing her bike across the road, takes over 2seconds from when the lights first illuminate her shoes, to the point she turns her head to face the car.
Dont know if alcohol et al was a factor, but in some incidences the UK police would have possibly have labelled this as "death by misadventure" or something to that effect. She just doesnt react.
Either way I wouldnt have been on my phone like the driver was, I've had a person release an animal in front of me at night from a central reservation of a dual carriageway with me nearest the armco barriers. The two cars behind me which I had previously overtaking that were now blocking the road slowing up the traffic also alerted me to something being up before I saw the block in the central reservation crouched down.
I thought it was odd to see someone crouched down and then I saw the what looked like a munctjac deer being released so I wasnt going to hang around for what seemed like a life threatening trap which could have been security services.
And I say that because I met Parker, Evans, and Rimmington, Parker in one walking location years ago and then Evans and Rimmingtom together whilst out hill walking in another location. Their driver who dropped them off from a black ford galaxy or vw sharon type vehicle kind of alerted me to something being up as I watched them from a distance.