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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: 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.