[Dprglist] uber death

[David Anderson]

An alternate opinion:

"Zachary Moore, a senior forensic engineer at Wexco International Corp. 
who has reconstructed vehicle accidents and other incidents for more 
than a decade, analyzed the video footage and concluded that a typical 
driver on a dry asphalt road would have perceived, reacted, and 
activated their brakes in time to stop about eight feet short of Herzberg."

<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-22/video-said-to-show-failure-of-uber-s-tech-in-fatal-arizona-crash>

-dpa



On 03/22/2018 02:55 PM, Alyssa Pipe wrote:
> Here is EEVBlog’s take on the incident
>
> https://youtu.be/HjeR13u74Mg
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alyssa
>
> On Mar 21, 2018, at 3:22 PM, David Anderson <davida at smu.edu 
> <mailto:davida at smu.edu>> wrote:
>
>> On 03/20/2018 08:35 PM, Ezra Christensen wrote:
>>> In cases like this, where even a human driver likely wouldn't be 
>>> found to be at fault, there would be no case.
>>
>> Oh there will be a court case.  I wonder if this is the argument that 
>> they are going to make?  It does seem to go against the many claims 
>> we have been inundated with that self-driving cars are in fact safer 
>> than human drivers.  Now the defense is that they are not worse? 
>>    Slippery, meet Slope.
>>
>> -dpa
>>
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