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They don't care about the fee; they don't want to report accidents. Reporting accidents is terrible PR for a self-driving car company. If they can hide away al
by tyre 10y ago
They don't care about the fee; they don't want to report accidents.
Reporting accidents is terrible PR for a self-driving car company. If they can hide away all their mistakes, that tells a better story for when they launch.
The biggest obstacle for self-driving cars at launch will be customers afraid of giving over complete control. If there is a paper trail of all the times they screwed up, even if those bugs were fixed, then they have to account for that in everyone's mind. Similar to experienced politicians that can have prior votes held against them.
- eric_h 10y agoHow can you hide accidents that occur on public, urban roads? Perhaps accidents with very minor damage, but wouldn't any significant accident already be reported, as the police would be involved?
- tyre 10y agoYes, but they would just be considered regular car accidents, not accidents registered on the company's "official log of self-driving car accidents".
- eric_h 10y agoI see. So the difference is really just a more easily accessible list of accidents. I'm sure records of "regular accidents" would include descriptions of the car involved, and a determined person could FOIA the information about all accidents an Uber self driving car was involved in regardless, right?
- sundaeofshock 10y agoFOIA? All the accident reports for autonomous vehicles are publicly accessible via the web. Not only that, but the companies are required to document each time the driver takes over. Again, all accessible via the web. The reporting requirements would have doomed Uber.
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- florean 10y agoYou usually don't have to report accidents. See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13241292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13241292