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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 The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday May 08 2018, @07:15PM (2 children)

    Which is still offering up a less viable solution to a problem that's been laid to rest longer than you've been alive.

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  • (Score: 2) by arslan on Wednesday May 09 2018, @04:19AM (1 child)

    by arslan (3462) on Wednesday May 09 2018, @04:19AM (#677335)

    True, but if the upsides on the new one are more than the old one that should be taken into account when just comparing the downsides which as you've pointed out are not equal.

    If a half-drunk-most-of-the-time-potentially-brain-damaged Runaway can stitch together some lucid upsides, I'm sure most folks here can too with better quality at that.. if they're not too biased one way or another of course.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 09 2018, @07:52AM

      Nah, positive results are not what matters. If they were, we'd be sticking everyone in the slums in gas chambers. They do commit most of the crimes after all. I do not want decisions made based purely on results, humanity needs to be involved even if the same or worse decisions are reached.

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