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I don't see how Volvo is responsible for Uber's recklessness. Volvo didn't make them test on public roads with unsafe technology.
by pythonaut_16 9y ago
I don't see how Volvo is responsible for Uber's recklessness. Volvo didn't make them test on public roads with unsafe technology.
- dagw 9y agoThe question isn't if Volvo is in any way culpable (they almost certainly aren't) but if there's a risk that Volvo might appear in any way culpable to the general public. The very last thing Volvo wants is the headline "Self-driving Volvo kills pedestrian".
- chillingeffect 9y agoEspecially because a Volvo plowed into a pedestrian almost a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbW2UgmjJUA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbW2UgmjJUA IIRC it was discovered this happened because the owner hadn't purchased the "Pedestrian Avoidance Package". And shortly before that, a Volvo plowed into a parked truck (in a demo): https://youtu.be/aNi17YLnZpg https://youtu.be/aNi17YLnZpg This was "was the result of an earlier flat battery that temporarily disabled the system due to low voltage" [0] The pattern here is not only due to the collision systems themselves, but to the system around the collision avoidance system. [0] https://jalopnik.com/5648126/volvo-pedestrian-avoidance-crash-test-fails-spectacularly https://jalopnik.com/5648126/volvo-pedestrian-avoidance-cras...
- pythonaut_16 9y agoTo be clear, I was specifically responding to the parent who somehow acted like Volvo was somehow complicit in this crash and thus wrong to distance itself.
- SkyPuncher 9y agoCritical thought would agree. Unfortunately for Volvo, the vehicle was a Volvo and without proper context (e.g. only looking at an image) it'd be easy to miss that Uber's self-driving technology was being used - not Volvo's.