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Classic engineering ethics problem. Management says they have to ship "right now", but you know that if you do, 1 in a 1000 customers will die. If you wait a co
by sbierwagen 9y ago
Classic engineering ethics problem. Management says they have to ship "right now", but you know that if you do, 1 in a 1000 customers will die. If you wait a couple years, that'll go down to 1 in 1000000, but your company might go bankrupt.
Engineers at Takata and in GM's ignition key department made one choice, Waymo seems to be making the other.
- manmal 9y agoWaymo has the benefit of not going bankrupt if they wait another couple years..
- sbierwagen 9y agoOh? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-alphabet-moonshot-projects-are-crashing-to-earth/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-alphabet-moonshot-project... The whole reason the car project got spun out into Waymo was to fast-track commercialization. They do not in fact have an infinite amount of money.