“The shuttle did what it was supposed to do, in that it’s sensors registered the truck and the shuttle stopped to avoid the accident,” the city said in a statement. “Unfortunately the delivery truck did not stop and grazed the front fender of the shuttle. Had the truck had the same sensing equipment that the shuttle has the accident would have been avoided.”
It makes me wonder if a human were at the wheel of that shuttle if the accident would have been avoided or not, it is not 100% clear cut to me that this accident would have happened in that scenario as well.
At a guess self driving cars will work very well with other self driving cars because they are hopefully never making any mistakes in the first place. But for now they will have to share the roads with us fallible humans and if that causes accidents like these to be far more frequent then that too is some kind of failure.
Crap reporting tbh.
"The human behind the wheel of the truck was at fault, police said."
Really sucks for the owners of that bus, couldn't have asked for worse luck.
However, if the shuttle was boxed in, it's not surprising that it just sat there. It's a hard problem.
Do we really know that? I mean sensors fail. People who are supposed to maintain the vehicles get lazy or budgets get cut because investors want quarterly returns, etc.
As for people getting lazy, you eventually charge it as attempted manslaughter or criminal negligence and things improve, the airline industry isn't a perfect example but it's a good one.