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> This puts the fault squarely on Uber’s doorstep, though there was never much reason to think it belonged anywhere else. Are you kidding me? At least 80% of t
by mtgx 9y ago
> This puts the fault squarely on Uber’s doorstep, though there was never much reason to think it belonged anywhere else.
Are you kidding me? At least 80% of the comments I saw online the following week were blaming the woman.
It seems to me like Uber's self-driving system is absolute trash. But they were in a hurry to "go live" with it, because they need it so that the company can become profitable ASAP. And thanks to the deregulation bill from last year (which was almost universally praised online), they could actually do that, too.
- atomical 9y agoI totally agree. There's a PR cover up going on.
- ajross 9y agoIt's still the biker's "fault" in some sense. That same video would have 100% exonerated a human driver. There's no way that was a safe crossing. The fact that there was a clear automation fault also doesn't change the fact that traffic safety is everyone's job, including but not exclusively the computers.
- telchar 9y agoYou mean the video that showed the safety driver staring at a cell phone for 6 full seconds right up until nearly the moment of impact? Maybe that would have exonerated the driver, but only to prove how perverse our driving laws are. But in my state the driver would have been convicted.
- Rapzid 9y agoDo we know what she was looking at? I haven't read anything conclusive of that. What would the driver have been convicted of? Would you be willing to get second opinions from prosecutors in your state as to whether or not they would have persued a conviction of that crime?
- telchar 9y agoIt was pretty clear in the video. I myself was charged for a much lesser distraction a while back involving a crash in which I was the only one at risk and for which the other driver shared equal blame. If I had run down a pedestrian I have no doubt the charges would have been severe.
- Piskvorrr 8y agoIf the video correctly portrayed the conditions, the driver would have been squarely on the hook for overdriving their headlights. Nope, the scapegoat camera doesn't help Uber in any conceivable scenario.