Thread:Comments:Uber suspends self-driving car program after pedestrian death in Arizona, United States/Speeding, human driver also responsible/reply (2)

AFAIK in Sydney cars are required to stop regardless of where and when a pedestrian is crossing, but pedestrians are discouraged,by law, to cross within less than 20 meters of a cross walk (even if it does not have zebra).

Personally I had been jaywalking excessively for years, until a point I read some blog post in which the term was given a ridiculing tone (where I learnt what the word meaning was), and then started learning to drive. That allowed me to fully realize that movement of cars are governed by humans, and are error prone. That was also the same time when I was taught the importance of eye contact with other drivers. An interesting experience.

I'd perhaps suggest self driving cars to choose speeds that are below the speed limit (obviously) and reduce it by at least 10 km/h at night (in high pedestrian activity areas, perhaps by far more than that). I'd also encourage holding drivers responsible because if the computer erred in choosing the desired speed, adjusting it needed to be within the human driver control.

Hopefully programmers of the self driving car had logged enough information to at least explain why it was speeding above the nominated speed limit.