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Since when did lidar/radar care about ambient light?
Woman safety driver, no? I don't know, there's been male and female names mentioned in the press.
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I doubt the car would have been out LIDAR/RADAR enabled. Obviously it's failed as it's intended to work in low light (or rather the algorithm that interprets the data has failed).
As mentioned LIDAR/RADAR is active (not passive) so the lighting conditions do not affect it.
To spell it out, the rumour is that LIDAR was disabled on purpose as they were conducting testing using passive cameras only (since a passive setup would be considerably cheaper than active LIDAR/RADAR). The test failed with the cost a human life.
If this turns out to be true it's going to be an even bigger shitstorm for Uber although I guess they'll just be throwing the safety driver under the bus.
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I doubt the car would have been out LIDAR/RADAR enabled. Obviously it's failed as it's intended to work in low light (or rather the algorithm that interprets the data has failed).
The bloke sitting in the driver's seat was useless certainly.
I'd be interested to know what the car decided it saw. I doubt it saw nothing, but there's obviously some determination it's made that meant it didn't judge Herzberg as an obstacle. Whether it's because she wasn't quite person shaped, or bike shaped. No idea. I also don't think we'll find out what the problem was. Unless it makes it to court, and unless as part of that Uber are required to explain why the car didn't stop. And if they're required to do that then the data it had available at the time and the algorithms used to make a decision would hopefully be available so that it doesn't just end up as talking heads and Twitter arguments saying "Well Uber has a bit of a Bro culture so they're probably happy to send out faulty cars and run over homeless people", which doesn't get anywhere.