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Automated system should intervene in an emergency not the other way around. Humans are bad at babysitting computers. Those who authorised testing this on publi

• friend_and_foe 3y ago
  When you get in a car, a shift in your mindset happens, you become a driving machine. You are controlling the car and can feel the inertia and have situational awareness. Sit someone at a computer to just watch what amounts to an IP cam stream out the front windshield of the car, they're not going to have any reasonable amount of reaction time. Add latency to it, theres no way this could've been stopped by an emergency operator. This "we have backup drivers just in case" is a load of bullshit so these companies can cover their ass. They removed safety features that could have prevented this from the car so they could cram more gadgets in. Their software didn't detect pedestrians unless there was a crosswalk. This machine had no business being on the road, the people that made the decision to do it anyway knew it would kill people, did a cost benefit analysis and a risk assessment, determined that the number of people it would kill was acceptable and continued on. They put people at keyboards as fall guys. 1000%, the executives and managers who green lit this should he in prison for it right now.