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Originally Posted by IK6SPEED
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Originally Posted by RickFLM4
We alll agree she jaywalked, but drivers do not have the right to run people down when it can be avoided. See 28-794. The apparent lack of slowing down, combined with a vehicle in test manned by an emergency driver who wasnÂt paying attention, cannot simply be ignored regardless of the jaywalking. The driver of the vehicle, computer and human, do not appear to make any attempt to avoid a collision, even at the last second.
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There wasnÂt enough time to slow down, due in no small part, to victim wearing dark clothes and no light on bike at 10PM.
Car has to make decision based on rules. Given multiple violations of victim, safety of car passengers should have been and most likely were priority.
There is a doctrine of last chance in many states, where as you state, you do not have unequivocal right to run down people, but based on video and car not speeding, there is nothing to show driver or computer could have prevented.
Car loaded with electronics had better chance of avoiding accident than when driven by a person. Again, tragic accident. But deaths will continue with automated driverless cars when people do stupid things. |
Don't automated driver cars work off radar / LIDAR? Do they depend on lights / color of clothes or could they have malfunctioned?
What about the driver not watching the road?
We'll just have to agree to see how it plays out.