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ETA: Oh, and it /looks like/ the "safety driver" was more interested in his phone than supervising the car. Or he could have been looking at a display showing what they car is doing / seeing? Whatever, he looks down for 3 -4 seconds - just too long to be looking away from the road ahead -...

Strangely Brown wrote:

Horse wrote:Interesting that the pedestrian decided to cross 'then' (ie in front of an approaching vehicle) - I wonder whether she was somehow 'impaired'?

Interesting, but irrelevant.

Irrelevant in the same way that some in the recent thread about mobile phone use were blaming the driver of the minibus.

Interesting that the pedestrian decided to cross 'then' (ie in front of an approaching vehicle) - I wonder whether she was somehow 'impaired'?

This is well and good when all vehicles are "connected", but consider the situation now where school buses are quite often the oldest vehicles in the fleet (due to general neglect and kiddy vandalism). They won't be "connected" for years. Since many current drivers won't expect*...

But would an autonomous vehicle think " stationary minibus, I can see somebody getting off, are they suddenly going to dart across the road?" :mrgreen: All it needs is to register a 'surprise horizon' and be prepared to stop if the situation changes. ^ That. Anything more is programming w...

But would an autonomous vehicle think " stationary minibus, I can see somebody getting off, are they suddenly going to dart across the road?" :mrgreen: All it needs is to register a 'surprise horizon' and be prepared to stop if the situation changes. ^ That. Anything more is programming w...

Maybe what's needed is simply that drivers pay attention. Nigel. It's still the thing that works best. I could pay full attention to a stationary minibus in front of me - instead of being on the phone - but unless I understand what I'm seeing soon enough, then take appropriate action, the situation...

FWIW, @work we have several GoPro cameras and found that having Bluetooth on severely depleted the batteries. And I thought my gopro just had a crap battery life When I said 'several', that was an understatement, at one point we had about 45 :) from three different variants in their range (buying m...

FWIW, @work we have several GoPro cameras and found that having Bluetooth on severely depleted the batteries.

Strangely Brown wrote:[*] Money back if I am wrong.

I'm going to bookmark this post in case I need to claim on that!

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