alt Hacker NewsJust been reading about the crash they’re talking about in the article - it seems like a kid walked out from between two parked cars.
Rather than being a bad thing, this is probably Waymo saving his life.
It says the car reduced speed from 17mph to 6mph before contact. This is the kind of reaction-speed safety an AI car should have over a human driver - instead it’s just ‘waymo hit a kid’.
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TurdF3rguson • today at 12:01 AM
Reducing speed is great, but isn't a swerve called for in that situation?
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Alternatively, maybe the car should have been driving more slowly. There is not enough information to know whether a human driver would have had a better outcome.