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Buried deep in one article it seems that despite there being some evidence the safety driver was looking at their phone, they decided that the driver wouldn't h

• kmonsen 7y ago
  Why are the cars even at the roads when it was fairly clear this could happen?
  • KingMachiavelli 7y ago
    Because it's no more risk than just driving a regular car on the road? Uber employs/contracts thousands of regular people to drive customers around and I'm sure some of them have had accidents as well - they just don't make the news as much. There is this secondary issue that partially autonomous cars give the driver a false sense of safety but that's not unique to this case either.
• kevingadd 7y ago
  Kind of depressing to think about: They hired a safety driver, then engineered the system so the safety driver was not capable of preventing the accident. Just paying a human to sit in the seat and watch the car kill a pedestrian. Even if it's not the driver's fault, they're probably going to feel guilt about their involvement forever. I sure would. All because some engineers cut corners!
  • wutbrodo 7y ago
    > engineered the system so the safety driver was not capable of preventing the accident. I don't believe this is true, unless I misread the article. The safety driver can override the vehicle controls at any point, and had she been paying attention to the road, would have done so five seconds earlier.
• peteradio 7y ago
  ~6 seconds is quite a long stop distance when decelerating from 40 mph. Wonder what the visibility was. Not sure how valid "ya they were looking away but they wouldn't have seen them anyway" is.