Be Excellent To Each Other

So a woman ran straight out into the road unexpectedly? I assume that the car did react, but not in time, right?

Oh man, I think it should have avoided her.

I welcome our drunk driving speeding robot overlords.

Fixed.

Those figures lump all driverless cars together, though. Which you'd have to assume is something google/waymo would take exception to. They seem to be ahead of the Uber ones with their technology and haven't even killed anybody at all. Although to get figures on safety you would really need to know whether in any of those occasions where the human had to take over it might otherwise have been a really bad crash.

Uber’s robotic vehicle project was not living up to expectations months before a self-driving car operated by the company struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Ariz.

The cars were having trouble driving through construction zones and next to tall vehicles, like big rigs. And Uber’s human drivers had to intervene far more frequently than the drivers of competing autonomous car projects.

Waymo, formerly the self-driving car project of Google, said that in tests on roads in California last year, its cars went an average of nearly 5,600 miles before the driver had to take control from the computer to steer out of trouble. As of March, Uber was struggling to meet its target of 13 miles per “intervention” in Arizona, according to 100 pages of company documents obtained by The New York Times and two people familiar with the company’s operations in the Phoenix area but not permitted to speak publicly about it.

I mean, I didn't want to mention it as it feels harsh, but what the fuck is that sat behind the wheel of the car in the video.