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As far as Uber being negligent for putting an easily-distracted human in charge of a car that ostensibly (even if they claim otherwise) needs little attention,
by spuz 8y ago
As far as Uber being negligent for putting an easily-distracted human in charge of a car that ostensibly (even if they claim otherwise) needs little attention, I totally agree they are negligent. The reason for that is I believe it's unreasonable to expect a human driver to pay 100% attention to the road while in a car that only requires 5% attention to the road. However, I also believe as well as telling the driver "pay attention to the road 100% of the time" she would have been told "Do not use your phone while driving" which I believe is a totally reasonable request and expectation. With this assumption and if the blame has to fall on only a single party then I think this news puts it squarely on the driver.
- emodendroket 8y agoAren't they required to use their phones to record diagnostic data? It's a small step from there to messing around on the phone.
- pas 8y agoWhat? Why don't they have their hands on the fucking steering wheel?
- emodendroket 8y agoThey didn't want to pay to have two people in the car anymore.
- spuz 8y agoNo, of course not. They have to pay attention as a driver. The car does all the diagnostic recordings.
- emodendroket 8y agoThat's false though. http://theconversation.com/preliminary-report-on-ubers-driverless-car-fatality-shows-the-need-for-tougher-regulatory-controls-97253 http://theconversation.com/preliminary-report-on-ubers-drive... > According to Uber, the developmental self-driving system relies on an attentive operator to intervene if the system fails to perform appropriately during testing. In addition, the operator is responsible for monitoring diagnostic messages that appear on an interface in the center stack of the vehicle dash and tagging events of interest for subsequent review.
- ErikVandeWater 8y ago> However, I also believe as well as telling the driver "pay attention to the road 100% of the time" she would have been told "Do not use your phone while driving" which I believe is a totally reasonable request and expectation. I think if you are going to pay someone near minimum wage and let them hold onto their phone while in the car, you know they are likely to use it. Even if the request is reasonable, you know minimum wage workers are going to do that sort of thing if not monitored via an in-car camera directed at the driver's seat.
- s2g 8y agoYou could pay me an absurd amount of money, I'm still going get distracted.