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To: slacker711 who wrote (217)3/22/2018 9:44:48 AM
From: Sam  Respond to of 567
 
That guy was not paying attention as he should have been. As we said before, if you aren't driving, you aren't paying sufficient attention to the road.

It looked like the car should have stopped. Could have stopped. But it is also true that the woman should not have walked out into traffic. No light, no crosswalk.

The video also shows the limitations of this kind of video. We need a wider angle to see what the woman was doing crossing the street at the time. If my guess is right, she was herself impaired. A person with normal human awareness would not have done that.

We need videos with different angles (above as well as on the side) to really determine what happened. But of course it will be impossible to get those sorts of video everywhere.



To: slacker711 who wrote (217)3/22/2018 10:28:43 AM
From: A.J. Mullen  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 567
 
Even a camera-only system should have reacted and maybe reduced the impact. If I have time to see the woman when primed for an event, an always-on system should have been able to engage the brakes and slow the vehicle. I wouldn't be too hard on a human for not hitting the brakes in time, I do fault an autonomic system for not doing better than an alert human.

Ashley