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> Mr. Levandowski has paid a significant price for his actions and plans to devote his talents to advance the public good. As a thief, he should be in prison.
by boolean 6y ago
> Mr. Levandowski has paid a significant price for his actions and plans to devote his talents to advance the public good.
As a thief, he should be in prison. He hasn't paid any price. He's still a millionaire, will probably start another company and raise billions in next 3 years.
- Cookingboy 6y ago>paid a significant price Is that price a large sum of money to a particular SuperPAC in the near future?
- gogopuppygogo 6y agoYou can take performance fees for raising money for a pac and not be licensed. Great way to make large sums of money if you have skills to raise money.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoNot only this, but Mr. Levandowski has made it clear he thinks his car failing to cause the first self-driving fatality would mean they were behind. The man believes manslaughter is the cost of doing business for innovation. He should be in prison for much more than he got.
- hulitu 6y ago> The man believes manslaughter is the cost of doing business for innovation. He should be in prison for much more than he got. Evil scientist Boo Evil scientist Boo
- Veen 6y agoAlthough it might be tempting, you can’t really send people to prison for disagreeing with your ethics.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agomuch imprisonment is based on just this, even if an action is required to send you on the road to prison your ethics are used as indicator of whether you should actually go there or not.
- KSteffensen 6y agoI truly hope that most laws have some basis in ethics where getting people killed is unethical.
- user-the-name 6y agoReckless endangerment is a thing, you know.
- WalterBright 6y agoThe first death in a powered airplane was where one of the Wrights crashed carrying a passenger, and he died. Should the airplane have never been invented and the Wrights jailed for trying?
- n4r9 6y agoThere's a difference between accepting the costs of progress and actively wanting to be indirectly responsible for death.
- WalterBright 6y ago>> The man believes manslaughter is the cost of doing business for innovation > There's a difference between accepting the costs of progress I'm not seeing the essential difference here. P.S. I know nothing about Levandowski, his beliefs, or his statements. Just commenting on what the parent wrote.
- n4r9 6y agoI'm also only commenting on what the parent wrote to be fair. My point is that being disappointed not to be involved in a death - as that comment suggests - is a level of callousness that goes well beyond accepting the cost of progress.
- WalterBright 6y agoSince I don't know the man, I prefer to be charitable and am willing to assume he was just being inept in his choice of phrasing rather than assuming he is evil. I worked on the stab trim gearbox design for the Boeing 757. That gearbox is "flight critical", meaning total failure of it means a crash. I'm very proud that the stab trim system has never caused an accident in the service history of the 757. (Of course, the design was an iteration on the highly successful 747 equivalent, not anything revolutionary.)
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- maxlamb 6y agoSource? That is pretty horrifying if true
- ocdtrekkie 6y ago> Last summer, after a man died in a Tesla that was using the car’s Autopilot system, which allows for autonomous driving on highways, Levandowski told several Uber engineers that they were not pushing aggressively enough. “I’m pissed we didn’t have the first death,” Levandowski said, according to a person familiar with the conversation. (Levandowski denies saying this.) https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/inside-uber-lawsuits-travis-kalanick.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/inside-uber-lawsuits...
- MrMorden 6y agoHe'll commit more felonies because criminals can't stop themselves from criming.