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Uber cutting costs? No way...
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that they don't have enough sensors and have significant blind spots:
Cow droppings.. I would argue that one does not need LIDAR.. and there us a lot of work on new approaches to LIDAR...the article clearly has no idea of the current state of R&D .. there might have been some serious problems with the Uber car but having only one LIDAR on the roof is probably not one of them...
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I was on holiday last week so missed this. It's looking like the problem with the Uber self-driving car involved in the fatal incident - and in fact all Uber self-driving cars - is that they don't have enough sensors and have significant blind spots:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-selfdriving-sensors-insight/ubers-use-of-fewer-safety-sensors-prompts-questions-after-arizona-crash-idUSKBN1H337Q
So the whole 'were the sensors working properly' conversation is a bit of a red herring if however well they were working they wouldn't have spotted the pedestrian/cyclist anyway.