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By virtue of being a HN reader, you are almost certainly much better educated and much more highly skilled than the person Uber hired to baby sit their vehicles
by yodon 6y ago
By virtue of being a HN reader, you are almost certainly much better educated and much more highly skilled than the person Uber hired to baby sit their vehicles during testing. Set the alarm on your watch to go off in two hours. Start looking at your monitor to see if any pixels fail in the next two hours. Ask yourself how far into that 2 hour task you were able to maintain vigilance. Now try to do it day after day. Was she at fault, yes. Were the Uber engineers who designed this testing system at fault too? Absolutely.
- weaksauce 6y ago> Was she at fault, yes. Were the Uber engineers who designed this testing system at fault too? Those two tasks are quite different. One is driving and observing new stimuli and the other is looking at paint dry. I don't think anyone could do that without adequate breaks. I never implied that the guilt was solely on her... she's culpable to an extent as is uber for not having two backup drivers and/or more breaks to stay fresh. I don't know if they had a written policy about it but I can't imagine being on the phone watching a movie is allowed.