Move fast and break things. Fake it till you make it. Drink the koolaid. All hail Silicon Valley. Blah.
The ugly truth is, when looking at the high-end camera photos of the accident spot, a human driver had a 50-50 chance of avoiding this accident. This car didn't even react. But that's not the worst thing. The worst thing is that the infrared or heatcam tech is fairly advanced and would have seen this person even in pitch black. But it seems Uber chose to do "testing on production" and released an experiment onto the roads. It's well known that lidar tech has problems during rains, snows and low light. Sure, driving it is great for machine learning, but at what cost? Especially when everyone expects so much more from this tech than to equal human drivers. The goal should be to remove accidents from the equation. But, especially for Uber, the goal is just to profit.
The ugly truth is, when looking at the high-end camera photos of the accident spot, a human driver had a 50-50 chance of avoiding this accident. This car didn't even react. But that's not the worst thing. The worst thing is that the infrared or heatcam tech is fairly advanced and would have seen this person even in pitch black. But it seems Uber chose to do "testing on production" and released an experiment onto the roads. It's well known that lidar tech has problems during rains, snows and low light. Sure, driving it is great for machine learning, but at what cost? Especially when everyone expects so much more from this tech than to equal human drivers. The goal should be to remove accidents from the equation. But, especially for Uber, the goal is just to profit.