Human knocks down woman in hit-and-run. Then driverless Cruise car parks on top of her, Victim in critical condition - eviltoast
  • just_change_it@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We desperately need footage of this to make any conclusions.

    The human driver hit her first, and knocked her into the neighboring lane…

    So she was hit and flung into another lane…

    …directly in front of a Cruise autonomous vehicle (AV) that was driving around by itself with no-one on board. The self-driving car then ran her over and came to a stop on top of her body, turning on its hazard lights. Her leg was pinned down by the back tire.

    So it stopped Like others have mentioned, driving over someone under a car can cause more injury than not moving. Was she screaming to move forward/move back? Was she flung in a way that a human driver could have stopped in time?

    If this was just a hit and run and there was no footage like what was provided by the ai car it could be that the victim or her family would be 100% on the hook for the medical bill. It will be interesting to see if the perpetrator is found and the footage surfaces with details so we can get some answers.

    edit: From another article

    The initial impact was severe and launched the pedestrian directly in front of the AV.

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      1 year ago

      I’m hoping that the car has multiple cameras recording so maybe the hit-and-run driver will be caught and prosecuted. That said, unless I misunderstood the article, I think the driverless car (DC) didn’t do a horrible job here. It sounded like the victim was struck and flung in front of the DC and it stopped (unfortunately on top of her). I don’t know if I could have reacted better. The article wasn’t clear but it read like the car contacted the police and the police instructed it to remain where it was, which is what I would have done if I were driving a car. The DC was then lifted off the woman by emergency personnel. We can’t expect DCs to be magically perfect. Just like we don’t expect people to be perfect. A DC is only as good as it’s programming. Hopefully this incident will be studied and if a better solution is found that can be integrated into the DCs operations. I really feel bad for the woman here. I don’t know but even if she shouldn’t have been walking no one deserves that. Let’s hope the hit-and-run driver is caught.