Most people on HN were wondering why the sensors didn't catch the pedestrian, now we have a possible reason:<p><i>"In scaling back to a single lidar on the Volvo, Uber introduced a blind zone around the perimeter of the SUV that cannot fully detect pedestrians, according to interviews with former employees and Raj Rajkumar, the head of Carnegie Mellon University’s transportation center who has been working on self-driving technology for over a decade."</i><p>It is very unfortunate that other programs will be tainted by this, but it's also a lesson.<p>I wonder what happened with the cheap LIDAR alternatives that showed up on HN some time ago.