Debate: should self-driving cars read driver intent like pedestrians do?
moultano · x · 2026-11-04
An X debate over an autonomous vehicle collision case: a pedestrian on the driver's left who sees the wheel turning right can infer she isn't aiming at him—the kind of everyday judgment we expect of pedestrians. The rebuttal: the car literally hit him, so the steering angle must have been within a few degrees of a hard hit, far from 'clearly' safe. The exchange probes whether AVs can infer intent from human actions or must rely on trajectory prediction alone.
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