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At some basic level it will always just be about profit. Their safety “just” needs to be good enough to not get shut down. Cynically, talk of drunk drivers etc.

At some basic level it will always just be about profit. Their safety “just” needs to be good enough to not get shut down. Cynically, talk of drunk drivers etc., is marketing to sell the story to regulators and the public. More optimistically, at least it’s possible to diagnose these mistakes and work to mitigate them. The fact that we could now start treating auto collisions as seriously as plane incidents might be reason to hope.

chefandy 3y ago
Money may be the medium of business— it’s how resources get distributed and how businesses gauge their success— but the primary structure of our society is humanity, not money. The way businesses or any other entity affects people is the only measure we should use to judge their usefulness and appropriateness of their behavior. That might be complicated to assess, but “oh well, you know, money” strikes me as the wrong place to land. While it may seem quaint to many, i won’t accept that some powerful group’s pursuit of wealth is more important than any non-wealthy person’s right to not get mangled by a pseudo-sentient taxi driver robot. If that’s the way it works out, as it obviously has, I’m pretty sure we should concentrate on making things closer to the way they should be rather than bemoaning the way things are.