Driverless Car Kills Pedestrian

[fan_since79]

It was just a matter of time...and they tell us that's the future we can rejoice over. Sure.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/03/19/uber-autonomous-driverless-pedestrian/

[Blarg]

It was just a matter of time. Would an actual driver had made the same mistake, no one knows. But it is a very cold world where all you can blame is technology designed to remove people from the expense ledger. 

This incident will slow Uber but you know the rest of the tech world is not going to stop moving forward. Too much profit on the line and too much control. 

[fan_since79]

When our taxis, buses, etc are driverless, and robots are flipping our burgers, and who knows how many other service jobs are without actual people at the helm, who's going to support the millions of people out of work??

 

[Blarg]

Really, they were not useful people at all being simple minded blue collar workers without college degrees. At least that is what Hillary has been saying then declining she said that for the last three years. 

[Spirit]

Having self driving cars is as dumb as having self firing guns.

 

 

 

 

Edited March 19, 2018 by Geoff

[Blarg]

Does a driverless car know it has run over a pedestrian and calls for 911 after taking selfies with the victim?

Edited March 19, 2018 by Blarg

[Lou]

So which insurance company is going to cover these vehicles? 

[Blarg]

At this stage of testing I would think none would be able to look at risk tables and be able to create a binding agreement.

And this is testing by putting these vehicles onto the streets completely without a human backup to intervene to prevent an accident. Zero failsafe on theoretical testing in an uncontrolled environment. Insanity.

 

Edited March 20, 2018 by Blarg

[arch stanton]

Police in the city of Tempe said Monday that the vehicle was in autonomous mode with an operator behind the wheel when the woman walking outside of a crosswalk was hit.

 

WTF was the operator behind the wheel doing?

[Blarg]

Probably texting.

[mrwicked]

These things are everywhere up here, have been for years.

And yeah always there is live human in there. But even they don't react in time clearly.

[Kevin]

Must have been an Asian car.

[Tank]

8 hours ago, Lou said:

So which insurance company is going to cover these vehicles? 

Curious about this, too. It's going to be costly without a doubt.

[gotbeer]

Skynet takes it's first victim.

[yk9001]

17 hours ago, Lou said:

So which insurance company is going to cover these vehicles? 

I love coming to angelswin.com for insurance talk.

[ten ocho recon scout]

20 hours ago, fan_since79 said:

When our taxis, buses, etc are driverless, and robots are flipping our burgers, and who knows how many other service jobs are without actual people at the helm, who's going to support the millions of people out of work??

 

 

[cez]

isolated incidents like this happened when people first started driving automobiles around a hundred years ago

people overreacted and wanted to ban automobiles over those isolated incidents, but pedestrians adapted, and now that technology is ubiquitous

 

 

[mtangelsfan]

1 hour ago, GOPSnowflakesHateCezero said:

isolated incidents like this happened when people first started driving automobiles around a hundred years ago

people overreacted and wanted to ban automobiles over those isolated incidents, but pedestrians adapted, and now that technology is ubiquitous

 

 

Curious, how is a pedestrian going to know if the car is being driven automatically?  

[cez]

1 minute ago, mtangelsfan said:

Curious, how is a pedestrian going to know if the car is being driven automatically?  

They couldn't.

I think there's going to need to be some serious discussion about pedestrian right of way laws and all of that with driverless cars. 

But driverless cars are going to be a reality, I think.  I can't wait.  No stoplights.  No traffic jams.  

[mtangelsfan]

4 minutes ago, GOPSnowflakesHateCezero said:

They couldn't.

I think there's going to need to be some serious discussion about pedestrian right of way laws and all of that with driverless cars. 

But driverless cars are going to be a reality, I think.  I can't wait.  No stoplights.  No traffic jams.  

How do you figure?

[Jason]

2 minutes ago, mtangelsfan said:

How do you figure?

I guess if they don't slow down to look at pointless shit happening on the side of the road, that may help.

[mtangelsfan]

[cez]

19 minutes ago, mtangelsfan said:

How do you figure?

Cars will tell the computer system managing traffic the route that everybody is taking, and adjust the speed of all other cars. No need to even have stoplights anymore. 

That's the utopian version, anyway.  There's always a dystopian version, though, lol. (see last link)

https://engineering.illinois.edu/news/article/21938

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkless/2017/05/26/just-one-driverless-car-could-ease-traffic-jams/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/

http://www.businessinsider.com/self-driving-cars-traffic-congestion-2017-6

 

[ten ocho recon scout]

Anyone with a passing interest in arnold movies could have seen this coming...

[Lhalo]

Victim walked out into the street right in front of the car. 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-20/video-shows-woman-stepped-suddenly-in-front-of-self-driving-uber