The stallement of the further development of autonomous cars seems rather a marketing thing on Toyota and Uber side than actual analysis of what happens. Still think that self-driving cars are already much safer than a human behind the wheel. As Musk said, it is not difficult to get to 99.9%, the important things is to get to 99.99999% of accuracy and reliability
How do you know this? From the video I saw, the advanced sensors didn't pick up the pedestrian at all. I would have expected some braking forcing the human driver to move forward abruptly. It would have been interesting to see the tail end of the video before impact to see if the car made any evasive moves at all. It wasn't evident to me the AI was 99.9% better in that situation.
Tragic accident and I hope the family was taken care of. I have been biking as a means of transportation most of my life and it is quite common to cross roads without crosswalks similar to the victim here. Scary to think the car coming down the road may not have a human driver watching out for any obstacles.
"Victim's family agrees to gag order in fatal self-driving vehicle accident" would have been a better title.
The terms of the settlement were not given. The law firm representing Herzberg’s daughter and husband, whose names were not disclosed, said they would have no further comment on the matter as they considered it resolved.
12 comments
[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 40.2 ms ] threadIt's just a hell of a lot easier to not even get into a case at all, for everyone.
The terms of the settlement were not given. The law firm representing Herzberg’s daughter and husband, whose names were not disclosed, said they would have no further comment on the matter as they considered it resolved.