Is there anything here to train for? The initial collision wasn't in any way Cruise vehicle's fault; but the subsequent repositioning shows their procedures and sensor coverage are lacking. Oh, and their integrity.
Those are all things an alert human driver should be ready and able to do. I would expect a quality AV system to do them better than a human, but in this case, none of those things appeared to happen. This AV decided “pedestrian is out of my lane, continue accelerating!” Only stopping when the pedestrian was right in front of the vehicle.
That's what human drivers do too. If you slowed down anticipating that a pedestrian's collision with some other car might fling their body in front of your car, you'd never make it to your destination. There's just too many crazy people in SF
- AV starts moving at -9.2s, after light changes
- Prediction output shows pedestrian path crossing AV travel lane: -7.7s
- Pedestrian leaves AV's travel lane: -5.3s
- Pedestrian pauses at crosswalk : -4.7s
- Contact b/w Nissan and Pedestrian; -2.7s