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I don't know how you can watch this video and then say that they should "maybe do more testing in controlled environments". This was a complete failure and Ube
by hnaccy 9y ago
I don't know how you can watch this video and then say that they should "maybe do more testing in controlled environments".
This was a complete failure and Uber's cars should be immediately banned from testing on public roads and there should be investigation into their practices to ensure public safety while testing their vehicles. If they rushed it trying to play catch up with Waymo they should be punished.
Personally I see this as a Therac-25 situation.
- archi42 9y agoIt's a "maybe" because I don't have any more data points than what's present in the video - only assumptions. But I strongly assume this could have been avoided by more thorough testing (e.g. use a contraption to shove various inanimate objects in the path of the car at various speeds [both object and car] in various light conditions). And iff a proper investigation finds out people responsible for this accident (engineers doing dirty fixes, managers neglecting safety, the driver just being an unaware dummy; you name it), they should carry the consequences same as a human driver would. And yes, their self driving cars should stay of the road until the fault has been found and fixed. I never claimed the opposite. (Aren't they? IMHO it's the obvious thing to do; but then we're talking about Uber and their poor sense of responsibility...) Eventually "maybe" has too weak of a connotation in this context (as a non-native speaker I sometimes find it difficult to pick the correct variant for the exact thing I want to implicate) - for which I apologise if I mislead you there.