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The video looks horribly over-exposed. If, with headlights, you can only see that far ahead then that speed is absolutely irresponsible.
The footage does make it hard to really tell. From what I can see there's only 2-3 seconds from seeing the person to the driver hitting them. Internet says car was travelling ~40mph, which means even if paying attention the driver would have had no chance of stopping, just a possibility of avoiding.
But based on the distance of the street lights I don't believe the visibility could be as bad as indicated.
In terms of speed, given the type of road I don't think it seems reasonable to expect pedestrians to be crossing there. You wouldn't expect people walking across the multi-lane sections of the A3.
Honestly my biggest takeaways from this are; 1) issues around smartphone use in cars; 2) humans are clearly not a fail-safe or back-up.
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The footage does make it hard to really tell.
See the discussion going on in the other thread:-
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/234810/?offset=900#14152513
Howard
Greenbank
The video looks horribly over-exposed. If, with headlights, you can only see that far ahead then that speed is absolutely irresponsible.
I would guess that a human would be able to see much further ahead and that the car simply didn't spot the pedestrian at all.
The human in the car didn't, because they simply were not looking.
Uber's self driving cars are screwed because of this. Corporate manslaughter charge please.