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http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-autonomous-car-fatal-crash/index.html

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Tesla in fatal California crash was on Autopilot

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43604440



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When a Tesla Inc. Model X slammed into a concrete highway barrier in California last month, the vehicle’s computers contained a wealth of information about the moments leading to the fatal accident.

The problem for U.S. accident investigators is that the information wasn’t easily accessible. The data stored on the Tesla is in a proprietary format that can only be accessed by the company. Similarly, the information the vehicles beam to Tesla computers on a regular basis can’t be obtained without the company’s cooperation.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration responded that it is working with industry groups to set such a standard. Until that happens, the agency will rely on current voluntary guidance for companies, the agency said in a Feb. 7 letter to the NTSB.

The safety board is in a similar position with Uber Technologies Inc. The agency is relying on Uber for data showing how one of its self-driving sport utility vehicles was operating when it struck and killed a woman who was crossing a road in Tempe, Arizona, on March 18.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-03/teslas-don-t-have-black-boxes-making-u-s-crash-probes-harder

Tesla owner almost crashes on video trying to recreate fatal Autopilot accident
Fred Lambert
- Apr. 2nd 2018 5:58 am ET



We can see the driver ignoring an alert to ‘hold the steering wheel’ sent out a few seconds before the barrier just like Tesla said in its report based on the logs – though that was likely a time-based alert.

Then it seems like Autopilot’s Autosteer stayed locked on the left line even though it became the right line of the ramp. The system most likely got confused because the line was more clearly marked than the actual left line of the lane.

That led the car directly into the barrier and it’s easy to see how a driver who is not paying attention couldn’t have been able to react in time since the driver who recreated it was barely able to apply the brake in time himself.



https://electrek.co/2018/04/02/tesla-fatal-autopilot-crash-recreation/

Tesla concluded "Tesla Autopilot does not prevent all accidents – such a standard would be impossible – but it makes them much less likely to occur. It unequivocally makes the world safer for the vehicle occupants, pedestrians and cyclists,"

Testing using the XC90...

Besmerching the Badge


The 240 famously became the standard-bearer for automotive safety in 1976, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration purchased 24 Volvos that were used to set safety standards that all future cars sold in the US would have to meet. More than a decade later, the Highway Loss Data Institute still rated the 240 wagon as the safest car in its class, and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety noted that the 240 sedan had the lowest death rate of any vehicle in America over a five-year period. Indeed, there were no 240 driver fatalities at all in any single-vehicle or rollover crashes in the US between 1990 and 1994.

This does not belong on this forum.

At night, pedestrians do not wear lights, cars do.

I sincerely feel badly for the person who lost their life.

I hope you or I never hit a person in the dark - but the person who can see a car coming should use care - or pay a serious price.

Actually, where I live, MANY pedestrians (runners, walkers, utility workers, etc) and cyclists wear "light" at night - flashing safety LED's, reflective vests and clothing, etc. They wear those things because they are doing everything they can to be seen in a situation where 1) ambient light is minimal and 2) they don't want to get hit.

Any collision between vehicle and pedestrian is tragic -- especially so where there is an injury or fatality. We should all do what we can to prevent them from happening. This incident was not the fault of the vehicle operator. It was the fault of the pedestrian who, for reasons we'll likely never know, decided it was a good idea to step in front of a moving vehicle in the dark.

It's remarkable that both of you give a pass to the SelfDriving 4400LB 2018 Volvo XC90, because it performed no better that a Human driving on the darkened roadway.

Why wasn't the SelfDriver equipped with technology that would have let it "see better in the dark". This tech has been around since 2007-09 to assist human drivers.

Guess Uber didn't think to incorporate what now should be 1000 times better versions in it's Volvo Self Drivers...considering what a cell phone was like in 2009 and what the iPhone can do now plus Consider what the state of AI was in 2009 and what it is now.

Perhaps that person would be alive if Uber had equipped its Test Vehicle with a some 10yo technology.

Go to the Dark Side With BMW Night Vision
https://www.wired.com/2009/10/bmw-night-vision/

Mercedes-Benz Night Vision
AutoInsiderNews
Published on Mar 13, 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6DMidknVCo

One day after Arizona's Governor Doug Ducey announced the suspension of Uber's license to test self-driving cars on public roads in the state, moments ago Reuters reported that Nvidia would suspend self-driving tests across the globe after Uber's fatality last week.

Like Uber, Nvidia has been testing self-driving technology globally including in New Jersey, Santa Clara, Japan and Germany.

The test halt is the second in 24 hours, and takes places shortly after Gov. Doug Ducey sent a letter to Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi, in which he said that he found a video released by police of the crash “disturbing and alarming, and it raises many questions about the ability of Uber to continue testing in Arizona.”

The move also comes days after The New York Times reported that the company's own documents showed the testing program was rife with issues. The documents showed trouble with driving through construction zones and requiring far more human intervention than competing companies.

Experts have told The Associated Press that the company's technology should have detected the pedestrian in time to avoid the crash.

Co-founder of Israeli start-up Mobileye, Amnon Shashua, said on Monday its computer vision system would have detected the pedestrian who was killed in Arizona by a self-driving Uber vehicle, and called for a concerted move to validate the safety of autonomous vehicles. In a blog post, Shashua also criticized “new entrants” in the self-driving field that have not gone through the years of development necessary to ensure safety in the vehicles.

An ABC News report that got very little media visibility, reported that the Apple engineer who died from crashing his Model X had previously complained about Tesla's autopilot feature.
The report goes on to say:

Walter Huang's family tells Dan Noyes he took his Tesla to the dealer, complaining that -- on multiple occasions -- the auto-pilot veered toward that same barrier -- the one his Model X hit on Friday when he died.
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in other SelfDriving News
A self-driving car was slapped with a ticket after police said it got too close to a pedestrian on a San Francisco street.
The self-driving car owned by San Francisco-based Cruise was pulled over for not yielding to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Cruise says its data shows the person was far away enough from the vehicle and the car did nothing wrong.

I'll point you to this discussion -- Wired Podcast

https://www.wired.com/2018/03/gadget-lab-podcast-351/

Steingold Volvo
Published on May 30, 2014

Volvo Pedestrian and Cyclist Detection w/ Full Auto Brake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWSw_iJDLW8

As usual - the press/public is asking the wrong questions. It's not whether or not autonomous cars are safe....or how many people will lose their lives.

It's whether or not they're SAFER than all the distracted human idiots out there driving cars. Pretty sure that an autonomous car, even with tech where it's at now, is safer than a great many of the cars being "driven" out there now. At some point the question will simply become -- who would you rather sue?

maybe you'd better re-read that.

Based on preliminary information, the car was going approximately 40 mph in a 35 mph zone, according to Tempe Police Detective Lily Duran.

Police say the investigation does not at this time show significant signs of the SUV slowing before the crash.
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Can't wait for fleets of (safer than human drivers)XC90s at 4400lbs each, moving at 5mph Over the SpeedLimit failing to brake???? Hit the roads in my town.
Glad it's not a Testing Town

you can't sue when you are Dead

Did read it -- official report said 38 in a 35 and the speed limit had just changed from 45; also said there's no way that ANYONE - human or autonomous - could have avoided hitting the homeless bag lady as she crossed (not in a crosswalk or at an intersection) in the middle of the night by stepping right in front of the moving vehicle.

I'll stand by my comment -- we'll find autonomous safer than distracted humans. And most human drivers are distracted.