The robotaxi braked hard but ran over the person. It then tried to pull over as a safety maneuver but continued driving for 20 feet at a speed of up to seven miles per hour with the pedestrian still under the car.
What a nightmare
Lighten up: my brother got hit by a drunk driver that dragged him 200 ft until someone managed to make him stop.
8 mil is not bad. My brother got fuck all.
It reminds me of some Omen type stuff, not that anyone has even seen that movie anymore.
Don't get me wrong, this is sad, but no excuse to ban self driving cars. As long as they hurt less people than human drivers do, they're preferable to human drivers. Perfection is unrealistic and unnecessary.
I get what you’re saying and part of me agrees; we all want to see fewer injuries from automobiles and I hope the self-driving tech can get us there.
Another part of me is livid that any of us deem any amount of harm or death from automobiles as being “within acceptable limits”, especially when it’s used to justify the current problems, injuries, and deaths from self-driving tech.
Car companies could be making automobiles [for the US market] much safer for everyone but they refuse to do so. They could:
— Make smaller vehicles
— Make vehicles lighter in weight
— Stop making oversized trucks and SUVs
— Lower the front bumper height and hood height of trucks and SUVs so that pedestrians who are struck are thrown onto or away from the vehicle instead of being smashed into a 6-foot tall grille and then run over.
— Limit the max speed of the vehicles
— Cease putting touch screens in vehicles and go back to physical and tactile knobs, buttons, and switches.
Government policies and regulation could be addressing all this and more as well. Again, they refuse to do so.
Feel free to drive over me for that amount of money
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