It was going 17 mph. That is rather slow.

To put it another way. If an autonomous vehicle has a reaction time of 0.3 seconds, the stopping distance from 17 mph is about the same as a fully alert human driver (1 second reaction time) driving 10.33 mph.

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linsomniac 7 hours ago | parent [-]

>It was going 17 mph. That is rather slow.

There's a case to be made that it wasn't slow enough.

	▲	supern0va 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I have a hard time believing that a human driver would be as slow as this Waymo, or even slower. I drive my kid to school where it's posted 20mph and there are cameras (with plenty of warnings about the presence of said cameras) and witness a constant string of flashes from the camera nailing people for speeding through there.
	▲	cortesoft 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		A small child jumped out in front of it, which is about the worst case scenario you can have... and the kid was fine. So it sounds like it was slow enough?
	▲	Sohcahtoa82 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Considering the car hit the child at only 6 mph and the kid just got up and brushed themselves off, it was plenty slow enough. Nobody was injured.
	▲	loeg 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Maybe. That level of safetyism seems pretty unreasonable when humans are 100x worse and still allowed on the road.