The video released by Uber was extremely misleading. Here is a video on YouTube of the same stretch of road taken by someone with an ordinary phone camera shortly after Elaine’s death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRW0q8i3u6E
It’s clear that a) the road is well lit and b) visibility is far, far better than the Uber video would suggest.
An ordinary human driver would have seen Elaine & taken evasive action. This death is absolutely Uber’s responsibility.
> An ordinary human driver would have seen Elaine & taken evasive action.
Looks like this was a hard fail for the AI then. We can say with better than 90% certainty that a human would have saved the situation, probably would have stopped or avoided easily. My mistake.
Which is also true. This is perhaps the underlying issue: "we expect cars to be safe, while also expecting driving fast in inherently unsafe conditions." In other words, the actual driving risk appetite is atrocious, but nobody's willing to admit it when human drivers are in the equation. SDVs are disruptive to this open secret.
The assumption was for an ordinary driver, the expectation is that given sufficient lighting the vast majority of drivers would see and avoid a pedestrian. Most of the millions of pedestrian vehicle interactions daily go by without incident, one or the other party giving way, so this would be the normal expectation for an ordinary driver.
We can reasonably assume that pja is aware of the existence of abysmal drivers and fatal crashes that should not have happened. I doubt their intent was for "would" to be interpreted as "100%".
It’s clear that a) the road is well lit and b) visibility is far, far better than the Uber video would suggest.
An ordinary human driver would have seen Elaine & taken evasive action. This death is absolutely Uber’s responsibility.