[jcranmer]

When the self-driving car killed a pedestrian several years ago, the initial sentiment on this site for the first few hours was essentially "those dastardly pedestrians, darting into traffic at the last second, how are you supposed to avoid them?" It took several hours for enough information to percolate through to make people realize that the pedestrian had been slowly and quite visibly crossing the road and the self-driving car (nor the safety driver) never did a thing to react to it.

Another thing to keep in mind is that video footage is much lower quality than what we can see with our human eyeballs. At no point in the video can I clearly identify what the debris is, but it's clearly evident that the humans in the car can, because they're clearly reacting to it seconds before it's even visible to us in the dash-cam-quality footage. I will freely accept that many drivers are in fact bad drivers, but a carcass (I think?) on a lane visible for >10 seconds away is something that anyone who can't avoid needs to have their license revoked.

[guywithahat]

(Assuming I know which accident you're referring to) The car that killed the pedestrian in Florida wasn't using supervised full self driving, he was using autopilot (which was basically adaptive cruise control at the time).

[jcranmer]

No, this was the Uber that ran over the homeless women in Arizona.

[guywithahat]

I'm sorry I thought we were just talking about Tesla's, my bad.