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The car clearly identified the bicyclist, so this just seems like poor training/rules, which is easy enough to fix.

I'm more interested in the second video from the BBC where it couldn't identify the maintenance vehicle. If the driver hadn't intervened, would it really have plowed straight into it? I seems like even a current, non-self driving car, would have intervened with automatic braking (or slowing down with auto-cruise control) in that situation.

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> this just seems like poor training

Heh. Yea, passing too closely is what many humans do.

Speaking of potentially murdering cyclists, since they already got all those sensors, they could prevent drivers and passengers from "dooring" cyclists.

The "dutch reach" (opening the door with your other hand which automatically makes you look over your shoulder) is unfortunately not commonly taught in driving schools.

"The "dutch reach" (opening the door with your other hand which automatically makes you look over your shoulder) is unfortunately not commonly taught in driving schools."

Excellent idea, going to use that one.

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