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The first machine to kill a human entirely on its own initiative was "Likely Caused By Software Set to Ignore Objects On Road" according to a new report on the collision which happened last March:
The car's sensors detected the pedestrian, who was crossing the street with a bicycle, but Uber's software decided it didn't need to react right away. That's a result of how the software was tuned. Like other autonomous vehicle systems, Uber's software has the ability to ignore "false positives," or objects in its path that wouldn't actually be a problem for the vehicle, such as a plastic bag floating over a road. In this case, Uber executives believe the company's system was tuned so that it reacted less to such objects. But the tuning went too far, and the car didn't react fast enough, one of these people said.
Fast enough? She walked across three and a half lanes in what should have been plain view of the car's LIDAR the entire time.
takyon: Also at Reuters. Older report at The Drive.
Previously: Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle
Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More
(Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday May 08 2018, @04:19PM (9 children)
NOTICE!!
YOUR CAR HAS BEEN LOCKED INTO KILL MODE!
The control of your car has been encrypted with strongest encryption and unique key, generated for this car.
Private decryption key is stored on a secret Internet server and nobody can decrypt your car until you pay by bitcoin and obtain the private key.
You only have 96 hours to submit the bitcoin payment. If you do not send money within provided time, your car will automatically begin driving and colliding with as many persons as possible. No one will be able to stop it.
Press NEXT for the next page.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday May 08 2018, @05:09PM (8 children)
Why would you make it collide with people ?
Those who have too little gas can go crash in fire stations and gas stations, and those with full tanks can go plow into buildings.
Lern2terror, noob !
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:11PM (7 children)
If the Ransomware doesn't do something really bad, then you aren't likely to pay the ransom.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:25PM (1 child)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:35PM
Very Much Agree, except for this hairball . . .
Tell it to people who buy a Windows PC.
It IS a standalone product according both to the manufacturer and to Microsoft. They equate the dastardly OS to be a part, very much like a power supply or memory module.
Or, tell it to Apple users.
Pay? No problem!
Pay for fixing something that shouldn't be broken? No problem!
Pay an artificially high price? No problem!
Pay for an accessory that should be free? No problem!
Pay for artificially short product lifetime? No problem!
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:25PM (4 children)
I'm suggesting full-scale city destruction. Can we discuss your classification of "really bad" ?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:36PM (3 children)
A city full of infected cars might be really bad.
Or a country? That might be badly.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:39PM
The ROI is pretty awesome, compared to a Zumwalt.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday May 08 2018, @07:50PM (1 child)
I am thinking of a zombie survival game, except the zombies are cars.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @08:17PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Overdrive [wikipedia.org] ?