From
another article i see the Uber driver was charged with
negligent homicide
- Vehicular homicide is a crime that involves the death of a person other than the driver as a result of either criminally negligent or murderous operation of a motor vehicle. In cases of criminal negligence, the defendant is commonly charged with unintentional vehicular manslaughter.
How to prove that HAD she not been watching a movie in the car THEN the person walking a bike in the dark across a road would have been seen and she would have been able to stop/slow her vehicle and so the bicycle walker would have survived?
Updated video with countdown clock in upper left corner
How will they prove that had she been 100% attentive she might have seen the person walking the bike and perceived, reacted and been able to brake or swerve to avoid the collision?
Perception time, reaction time...1.5 to 2.5 or more seconds...the video shows less than that time available.
The person walking the bike was NOT walking in an area illuminated from overhead lights (or so it seems so in the video above)
In the dark, dark no reflective clothing
from the video above the person with the bike was NOT IN VIEW until approx 1 second before the collision.
The driver would have NOT had ANY time to do anything!
Will like to see the report and HOW they plan to PROVE BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT that she was criminally negligent?
She should NOT have been watching a video That is true.
However
Even if she wasn't there was NOT ENOUGH TIME to Perceive and respond and brake/swerve from 45 MPH to avoid the collision!
Review the video above.
Guess political point being made is 'DO NOT WATCH VIDEOS WHILE DRIVING!'
i agree that one should give FULL ATTENTION to the driving task however would this have been avoided?
And DO NOT WATCH VIDEO also good advice since if you recall the
Tesla driver who was watching a video and ran up underneath a trailer!
Now that was in broad daylight and the driver would have had more than adequate time to perceive and react to avoid that collision.
Not so in this collision or so it seems. Will be interesting to see how they came to charge her with
negligent homicide and how they plan to prove that.
From [url=https://www.npr.org/2020/09/16/913530100/backup-driver-of-autonomous-uber-suv-charged-with-negligent-homicide-in-arizona]another article[/url] i see the Uber driver was charged with [size=150]negligent homicide[/size]
[list]Vehicular homicide is a crime that involves the death of a person other than the driver as a result of either criminally negligent or murderous operation of a motor vehicle. In cases of criminal negligence, the defendant is commonly charged with unintentional vehicular manslaughter.
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How to prove that HAD she not been watching a movie in the car THEN the person walking a bike in the dark across a road would have been seen and she would have been able to stop/slow her vehicle and so the bicycle walker would have survived?
Updated video with countdown clock in upper left corner
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZGk5bRg7Ww[/media]
How will they prove that had she been 100% attentive she might have seen the person walking the bike and perceived, reacted and been able to brake or swerve to avoid the collision?
Perception time, reaction time...1.5 to 2.5 or more seconds...the video shows less than that time available.
The person walking the bike was NOT walking in an area illuminated from overhead lights (or so it seems so in the video above)
In the dark, dark no reflective clothing
from the video above the person with the bike was NOT IN VIEW until approx 1 second before the collision.
The driver would have NOT had ANY time to do anything!
Will like to see the report and HOW they plan to PROVE BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT that she was criminally negligent?
[b]She should NOT have been watching a video[/b] That is true.
However
Even if she wasn't there was NOT ENOUGH TIME to Perceive and respond and brake/swerve from 45 MPH to avoid the collision!
Review the video above.
Guess political point being made is 'DO NOT WATCH VIDEOS WHILE DRIVING!'
i agree that one should give FULL ATTENTION to the driving task however would this have been avoided?
And DO NOT WATCH VIDEO also good advice since if you recall the [url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-crash/tesla-driver-in-fatal-autopilot-crash-got-numerous-warnings-u-s-government-idUSKBN19A2XC]Tesla driver who was watching a video and ran up underneath a trailer[/url]!
Now that was in broad daylight and the driver would have had more than adequate time to perceive and react to avoid that collision.
Not so in this collision or so it seems. Will be interesting to see how they came to charge her with [size=150]negligent homicide[/size] and how they plan to prove that.