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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2199 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How a self-driving car killed a pedestrian in Arizona

I'll wager that at 38mph, you wouldn't hit a raccoon.

You wouldn't hit a porcupine.

You sure as shit wouldn't hit a deer.

A pedestrian?

So some pedestrians do dumb shit. Homeless pedestrians in particular. I was coming around a 50mph curve once, at night, in the rain, only to find a black dude (a dark black dude) wearing camouflage fatigues pumping his wheelchair in the middle of the middle of three lanes right at me. He waved. He knew he was doing dumb shit, but he did dumb shit anyway.

I didn't hit him, and neither did anyone in front of me. Neither did anyone behind me. Was he lucky? Hells yeah. But in general, people are lucky when it comes to cars. That's because humans have, deep in our understanding of the world, the notion that sometimes shit goes horribly wrong and we have to wing it.

Robots don't wing it.