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First autonomous car death caused by faulty software
Accepted submission by Justin Case
at 2018-05-07 21:08:36
from the shouldn't have settled so quickly dept.
The first machine to kill a human entirely on its own initiative was "Likely Caused By Software Set to Ignore Objects On Road" [theinformation.com] 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.
Uber executives believe ... the tuning went too far, and the car didn't react fast enough
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.
You feel a whole lot more like you do now than you did when you used to.
