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posted by takyon on Tuesday May 08 2018, @03:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the false-negative dept.

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


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday May 08 2018, @05:09PM (8 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday May 08 2018, @05:09PM (#677093)

    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 !

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:11PM (7 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:11PM (#677115) Journal

    If the Ransomware doesn't do something really bad, then you aren't likely to pay the ransom.

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    • (Score: 1) by tftp on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:25PM (1 child)

      by tftp (806) on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:25PM (#677118) Homepage
      You are not likely to pay for faults in a standalone product that you purchased. Your duty would be only to inform law enforcement and the manufacturer. You cannot verify that the threat is real (welded hood) - you cannot fix it. Paying will not help. First, the kill code may not be removed. Second, there may be no kill code. But yes, a wave of spam with these words and a few dozen true kill hacks will cause havoc.
      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:35PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:35PM (#677121) Journal

        Very Much Agree, except for this hairball . . .

        You are not likely to pay for faults in a standalone product that you purchased.

        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!

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    • (Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:25PM (4 children)

      by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:25PM (#677119)

      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)

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:36PM (#677125) Journal

        A city full of infected cars might be really bad.

        Or a country? That might be badly.

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