This is important. I hope engineers working autonomous cars think long and hard about whether they want to be on a team that, it looks to me like, negligently k

This is important. I hope engineers working autonomous cars think long and hard about whether they want to be on a team that, it looks to me like, negligently killed someone by choice. The only difference between disabling the emergency braking mechanism and, say, intentionally disabling safeties on industrial machinery is the novelty. I think it was pretty obvious that something like this would happen, and that's why so many people have been making noise about it. Now that we know for a fact that Uber is willing to make this choice, there's (a) no excuse for not coming down on them for it, (b) no excuse for Uber not completely overhauling their safety protocols with the help of an external ethics and legal advisors, and (c) no excuse for engineers working on this for not at least seriously thinking about their own ethics and possible moral culpability. Some people want to focus on the future. Self driving cars will be great! Gotta break some eggs to make omelets! Fine. But those who are killed before that bright future deserve some accountability, those who don't want to be killed deserve some respect, and the makers of said omelets can bloody well be expected to be held responsible for their actions.