Reply to post: Re: LiDAR doesn't work in the dark? WTF?

Uber's disturbing fatal self-driving car crash, a new common sense challenge for AI, and Facebook's evil algorithms

Mark 85

Re: LiDAR doesn't work in the dark? WTF?

The only clear point the video shows is thid accident was going to happen driver or driverless.

No way would a human behind the wheel have changed the outcome.

It just highlights that whilst driverless cars will for sure reduce road deaths, it's never going to get to the magical 100%. It with current technology.

I'm not sure why the downvotes. Based on the video just of what's happening on the road, I tend to agree. The distracted driver doesn't help. Black clothing at night on the roads is a serous problem. I agree that a human driver would have had issues also.

But are there other factors at play here... was the car going too fast for conditions? Even humans drive too fast. There's just too many unknowns here for one to make a judgment call from watching a video on a computer screen.

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