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this is quiet interesting. two days ago the main stream media here in germany said that the accident would have happened anyways, regardless of the self-driving technology built into the vehicle.

Looking at the video, the quality of the current self-driving technology is really questionable, especially if i recall also the other non-fatal road traffic offences publicized so far.

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That claim by the media sounds obviously untrue.

And alongside being untrue, it ignores the differing severity of collisions. Even if the car had to use its normal video camera instead of Lidar for some reason, the second or two of applying the brakes that would provide can easily -- and will likely -- turn a fatal collision into a non-fatal collision.

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