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Originally Posted by IK6SPEED
Many stories have come out over the last 4-5 days that Uber’s autonomous cars were far behind the capabilities of other autonomous companies - and this might have been the best thing for their program as they will need to get it up to the level of others - or get out of the field - quickly.
Arizona Governor just ordered Uber to cease all testing of autonomous driving in Arizona - so much for those saying the police statements were financially driven.
The order does not have an impact on any other Company.
As everyone, including myself in this thread has stated, clearly there was a technology failure.
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LOL. You stated no such thing. You blamed the dead pedestrian first off and continued on that rant as far as to cite law stating the "passenger behind the wheel" had no legal requirement to avoid the accident.
Here's what happened that caused the death of a human pedestrian:
- Driverless car being beta tested in a live environment on an open public road
- State Governor looking for tax revenue by errantly allowing such a test to take place in his state (now since retracted the executive order that allowed such testing)
- Uber test driver not paying attention to the test and not performing his/her function, which was to take control of the vehicle when the tech was unable to safely operate the vehicle
- Uber test driver did not have the high beams on, which is why the pedestrian was not in her field of view
- Pedestrian errantly relying on and expecting a human driver to see her crossing the road at night because she believed she had the right of way
- A failure of all involved to understand physics.
Slam dunk.