The description given before the video was released painted a picture in my mind that the woman was on the median and "suddenly" entered the roadway in front of the vehicle. I pictured someone darting across the road directly in front of the car, with no way to stop in time.
This video shows a completely different scenario. The woman started on the median, but the vehicle was in the #2 lane. She wasn't visible to the naked eye but she also wasn't darting into traffic and had to cross the #1 lane before even being in the path of the vehicle. A human driver certainly would have difficulty stopping in time, but why did the sensor package not pick her up? This doesn't appear to be the close call we were told it was. To me, this seems like exactly the scenario that autonomous driving vehicles are intended to prevent.
This video shows a completely different scenario. The woman started on the median, but the vehicle was in the #2 lane. She wasn't visible to the naked eye but she also wasn't darting into traffic and had to cross the #1 lane before even being in the path of the vehicle. A human driver certainly would have difficulty stopping in time, but why did the sensor package not pick her up? This doesn't appear to be the close call we were told it was. To me, this seems like exactly the scenario that autonomous driving vehicles are intended to prevent.