[Dprglist] uber death

[Ezra Christensen]

The interior video footage did show the driver was not paying attention. 
After seeing the exterior footage and scene, I was surprised the car 
didn't detect and react to the pedestrian. Overall, it's not looking 
good for Uber.

Nothing against Zachary Moore personally - I'm still withholding 
judgment until a full analysis is done. Fortunately, we have more than 2 
seconds to make a decision.




------ Original Message ------
From: "David Anderson" <davida at smu.edu>
To: dprglist at lists.dprg.org
Sent: 3/22/2018 10:59:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Dprglist] uber death

>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> 
><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 < 
>><mailto:davida at smu.edu>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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