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PaulK
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Message 103 of 142 (830427)
03-29-2018 2:45 AM

Interesting developments
From The Register - not a top source, but usually not too bad.
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Apparently the Uber car had only a single-top mounted LIDAR sensor, which creates a blind spot low and close to the vehicle. Most self-driving vehicles have 5 or 6 including side-mounted sensors.
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A spokesman for Aptiv, which supplies other sensors and software, claimed that their systems were disabled on the car in question.
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Looks like a case of Uber being Uber and cutting too many corners.
  
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12-12-2018 11:43 AM 		Reply to: Message 113 by Percy
12-12-2018 9:10 AM

Re: Blowing own horn again...
Uber is much worse - at least with cars. Ars Technica
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A car was damaged nearly every other day in February," Miller said. "We shouldn’t be hitting things every 15,000 miles."
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(The Computer Science department at Uni had a DEC 20 - I used it quite a bit)
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