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Crisis PR is an interesting thing. Each incremental death from AV causes less repetitional damage. Uber had a big shitstorm when they first killed someone, no
by stefan8r 7y ago
Crisis PR is an interesting thing. Each incremental death from AV causes less repetitional damage. Uber had a big shitstorm when they first killed someone, now they kill someone every day and the response is crickets. This is less of an issue than people like to make of it.
- jdale27 7y ago>Uber had a big shitstorm when they first killed someone, now they kill someone every day and the response is crickets. Umm, what? Source?
- stefan8r 7y agoRealize the phrasing may have been confusing - I'm talking about regular Ubers, not self-driving. My quote was from a person internal to Uber. Below is a TC article citing a public report on US Data. Numbers in that are roughly 50/year, or a fatality in America every week. Every day may have been a stretch, but I'd guess you could deduce that Uber drivers worldwide are involved in a fatality accident at least every day. *also - this is obviously a lower rate than non-Uber drivers per mile https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/05/ubers-fatal-accident-tally-shows-low-rates-but-excludes-key-numbers/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/05/ubers-fatal-accident-tally...