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Comment by red75prime

2 hours ago

Also google "sensitivity-specificity tradeoff." Initiating emergency braking when at least one sensor detects a pedestrian has the highest sensitivity, but the worst specificity. The real trolley problem of self-driving: how many spilled drinks and read-end collisions society is willing to tolerate to save one life.

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