it seems it did have human-like behavior. It sensed an accident, and tried to avoid it. What more do you think could have been done to avoid this accident?

there. I thought I did see it going backwards in the video, but I couldn't tell which end was the front, lol.

If drivers could respond better to external human behaviour, deaths and serious injuries could be greatly reduced.

Article says that 90% of traffic fatalities are caused by human error.

My daughter and her millennial friends take driverless Uber’s as often as they can. They actually feel safer than with a human only driver.

or safer because they are physically afraid of the driver?

I have taken exactly one Uber (not my choice; I was on a vacation and that's what the friend ordered) and the driver was a flat out racist. It was awful

"Surprise, surprise."

I imagine the same was said in 1891, when Henry Wells of Massachusetts, driving his brand new gasoline-powered buggy, struck Ebeling Thomas.

The passengers saw the truck coming towards them but there was no driver to tell to move.

Or at least honked the horn to alert the truck driver.

Back to the drawing board for more sensors that warn other drivers.

Seems like a bit more engineering could fix that problem.

I'm still pretty skeptical, but I look around me and I see many many driverless cars. There are people sitting behind the steering wheel, playing with their phones instead of driving.

I was in an accident once where a guy ran the red light at the intersection, hit a SUV crossing the intersection, which caused the guy's car to veer off to the curb, the curb caused the car to turn, then it was heading straight for the front of my truck! Even though I saw the accident happen initially, I did not expect the car to veer towards me and as it started coming towards me I tried to put my truck in reverse, but with the shift on the floor, I was not able to do it fast enough to try backing up (and I also needed to check to see what was behind me so *I* would not cause an accident as well. He ends up hitting the front of my truck anyway.

There was just not enough time to react, and a horn blow in this case would have not helped in any case.

I don't believe that even if there were a driver, the passengers warning a driver, that the driver would have had enough time to focus attention, devise a countermeasure, and execute it in time to avoid the accident anyway.

moving truck. Not even close.

An accident after just two hours on the job proves that they need to enter many more accident avoidance scenarios into the driverless van's computer system, including situations when the van is sitting still—perhaps one as simple as blowing the horn.

Not yet ready for prime time.

Warn the guy.

Honked my horn when it's clear they don't see you. I think that is something the Robots can't do. Driving may be more intuitive than we think.

If you see those front wheels just starting to turn, before the vehicle itself changes orientation, you can frequently get that extra instant needed to avoid running into someone turning in front of you.

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Republicans are in charge. This is all on them.

... it's the humans!

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We should have listened then!

This whole business of driverless vehicles is being pushed to market because a small number of companies hope to reap big profits -- not because of the possibility of it doing anybody else any good at all.

In my day we didn't need moving pictures, in my day there was only one show in town and it was called STARE AT THE SUN! That's right! You'd sit in the middle of an open field and stare up at the sun til your eyeballs burst into flames! --that's the way it was and we liked it, we loved it!

Driverless shuttle was hit by a careless truck driver.

The problem probably was that the shuttle didn't have a horn.
Something to add I suppose.