Using a Valvo System to Classify a Person in a Car, a Bike, an Other?

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The system never did properly classify hersburg as a human. It was in those five point six seconds from the time the system first detected her up ahead in the road to the time of the crash. Each time it would re classify what it was, it would just throw out the former trajectory of how this object had been moving across the road and started from scratch each time. And another one of the key things there was that it also did an alert raphael vasquez that something was happening in front right? You know, whether she was looking down or what she was doing, there was not that notification to say, like, hay, pay attention. There's something going on here that

Paris Marx is joined by Lauren Smiley to discuss what we’ve learned about the Uber crash since in happened in March 2018, what that’s meant for the vehicle operator who’s been charged, and whether the justice system made the right call in blaming her instead of Uber.

Lauren Smiley is a WIRED contributor and freelance journalist based in San Francisco. Follow Laren on Twitter at @laurensmiley.

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Lauren interviewed Rafaela Vasquez and dug into the substance of the past four years of information on the Uber crash for WIRED.
Last summer, Vasquez’ legal team argued the grand jury hadn’t heard to full version of events before indicting her.
In 2019, the NTSB’s final report placed primary blame on the operator, but secondary blame on Uber, the pedestrian, and the state.
In 2015, Lauren wrote about the “shut-in economy” and social divides being entrenched by on-demand services.

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