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In response to "probably not but really the argument is two-fold" by just oblique

does the car have the tech to stop faster when going over a certain speed?

Posted by groiny (aka groiny) Mar 22 '18, 10:11

because it appeared that it was going at least 45, so it would have had to see her pretty early to be able to stop in time, and I don't know what other cars were around to allow for swerving.

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Take visual sensors out of the mix, any kind of radar or non-visual sensor should have seen an object moving left to right before they crossed into - just oblique Mar 22, 10:12 6
- My money's on "the computer got confused by a person walking behind a bike and failed to classify it as either a bicyclist or a pedestrian". -- nm - Ender Mar 22, 10:18 4
  - Confusion might be a good time to brake until more information is gathered/interpreted. -- nm - psilotum Mar 22, 10:20 3
    - Sometimes, but there IS a threshold. A car driving down the highway can't come to a complete stop for every tire tread and cardboard box. - Ender Mar 22, 10:30 2
      - This was a five foot tall, and five or six feet wide at the base so whether it was human or merely trash, a driver wouldn't ignore it -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 22, 14:17 1
        
        "This is speaking more broadly and not specifically about this instance. This clearly should have been above that threshold." -- nm - Ender Mar 23, 08:14
- sometimes, people get run over. -- nm - groiny Mar 22, 10:13

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