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You're forgetting the most important thing about Uber: they disabled the automated braking system in their 'self driven' cars and killed a person.
by linuxftw 5y ago
You're forgetting the most important thing about Uber: they disabled the automated braking system in their 'self driven' cars and killed a person.
- lhorie 5y agoThat was tragic and all, but it's just a blip as far as stock prices go. Aurora acquired Uber's self driving unit in December, so SDV isn't even part of Uber's strategy anymore.
- RNCTX 5y agoIn a sane world the management of the company would be in prison for that.
- burnished 5y agoThere were multiple failures. Two automated braking systems were disabled, and they moved from a 2 person testing standard to a 1 person standard. I think there might be others, but those are the big ones I remember. It took a number of circumstances for that collision to occur.
- lhorie 5y agoThe operator watching TV shows on their phone instead of doing their job was kind of a big part of it as well.
- burnished 5y agoYes! I mentally sort of rolled it into "going from 2 to 1 operators", because fucking around like on becomes easy and less attractive when you aren't alone, but it absolutely should be stated. Thank you. And I guess, plus the person going across the highway at night. Just, a whole lot of things had to go wrong in this case.