[HN Gopher] Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars h...
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       Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same
       truck
        
       Author : reteltech
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2024-02-14 21:07 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.cnn.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.cnn.com)
        
       | Fricken wrote:
       | A pick-up truck being towed crooked and backwards. Both vehicles
       | failed to read the situation in the same manner.
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       | Autonomous vehicles have various redundant systems built-in that
       | can take priority and override false positives.
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       | I was previously under the assumption that one of the really
       | important reasons for Lidar is that it can get you closer to an
       | absolute truth about whether something is a solid object, and
       | where that hypothetically solid object is relative to the
       | position of the vehicle, regardless of what the classifier thinks
       | it is seeing.
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       | So did the lidar fail to read the solid object, or was the lidar,
       | was it de-prioritized? or was it simply not available as a
       | fallback?
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       | Presumably Radar and proximity sensors were also involved. What
       | were they doing?
       | 
       | This is a fascinating edge case, and I hope to hear about the
       | real reason for the 2 incidents.
        
       | ralph84 wrote:
       | Link should go to the blog post not CNN.
       | 
       | https://waymo.com/blog/2024/02/voluntary-recall-of-our-previ...
        
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