• Chozo@kbin.social
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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.