Reply to post: Re: Autonomous vehicle safety ignored

Uber jams Arizona robo-car project into reverse gear after deadly smash

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Autonomous vehicle safety ignored

"It was only Uber that decided not to use expensive LIDAR sensors that other manufacturers use as part of their redundancy design."

As the reports say: The sensors picked the pedestrian up just fine. The problem was in how the programming (failed to) respond.

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