In message , Paul
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She was in the middle of the road.

This wasn't a "take one step off median, get clipped" case.

The car should have detected this. It didn't.

Indeed.

The weather conditions are perfect. And, it's nighttime.

Now the question is, what part of the car failed. Did
the computer crash ? Did the classifier hardware crash ?
What exception condition or BSOD was it throwing at the time ?

The car doesn't react at all.

It certainly didn't seem to.

The Safety Driver isn't much of a safety driver.

no, he was useless.

Paul

I would be interested to know a couple of things (though these should
_not_ determine any decisions, because you have to allow for deaf
pedestrians):

Was it an electric car (and thus rather quiet)? Was she hard of hearing?
Do any of the autonomous systems currently being developed use the horn?
(I'm pretty sure the answer to that one is no, probably because the
false positives would result in its over-use and thus be used [as
another argument] against autonomous vehicles; however, once things
improve in that respect, I'd say they should - if audible warnings
_inside_ the car are a good thing, then they would be outside too.)
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