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Offline Octavia1

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Re: Uber robo-car kills pedestrian in USA
« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2018, 11:08:58 am »
Imagine this of a Saturday night on Camden Street. rofl

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Re: Uber robo-car kills pedestrian in USA
« Reply #18 on: March 23, 2018, 02:40:47 pm »
Closer to home, two pedestrians killed by motor car being driven by a human:

http://www.thejournal.ie/galway-women-killed-in-collision-3919411-Mar2018/

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Re: Uber robo-car kills pedestrian in USA
« Reply #19 on: March 24, 2018, 01:07:16 am »
Closer to home, two pedestrians killed by motor car being driven by a human:

http://www.thejournal.ie/galway-women-killed-in-collision-3919411-Mar2018/

No surprise there what with alcohol drugs speeding and phone usage. What's Ubers excuse?

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Re: Uber robo-car kills pedestrian in USA
« Reply #20 on: March 24, 2018, 01:33:02 am »
all the necessary safety parameters thats programmed and necessary for an autonomous car to be set loose on the public thoroughfares would render the yoke either crawling as it accessed weather/visibility/road conditions or constantly stopping as it encountered debris or other obstacles however minor. I'd wager alot of this stuff was dialled down or turned competely off to expedite the autonomous car trials.

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Re: Uber robo-car kills pedestrian in USA
« Reply #21 on: March 24, 2018, 03:19:36 pm »
100% safety is a reasonable aspiration provided one appreciates that perfection is not always readily achievable. While autonomous vehicles will undoubtedly reduce road deaths, particularly in Ireland with our drug/drink/speeding culture and general ignorant attitude to compliance with (road traffic) regulations, some casualties ought to be expected. Folk will have to learn that you can't step in front of a heavy metal object moving at 50 kilos/hour and expect to walk away unscathed, etc. Obviously any reduction in serious injury/death would be welcome but a realistic target might be to half the number within 5 years of operation with further improvement possible as technology advances and humans learn how to interact with robots.

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Re: Uber robo-car kills pedestrian in USA
« Reply #22 on: March 24, 2018, 06:28:24 pm »
94% of collisions are caused by human error.

Rule out the idiot.

Problem being, Robots and their makers don't pay tax.

 


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