• Duranie@lemmy.film
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    1 year ago

    Not only that, but no matter whether it can identify a person as a person, cars shouldn’t be driving over objects that are child sized or larger.

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      1 year ago

      These cars won’t even drive over a fire hose laid out across the road (this was literally a test we did regularly when I worked on Waymo’s SDCs). They definitely won’t drive over a person (intentionally).

      Inertia is a factor here. Cars can’t stop on a dime. By the time the pedestrian was knocked in front of the SDC, there was likely not enough time to have possibly avoided hitting her, just due to physics.