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This is Uber's first major "ransackgate" (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825177, http://techcrunch.com/2
by Jun8 13y ago
This is Uber's first major "ransackgate" (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825177, http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/the-moment-of-truth-for-airbnb-as-users-home-is-utterly-trashed/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/the-moment-of-truth-for-air...): rather than playing dumb or being ultra-cautious and making teh same mistakes that Airbnb did they should immediately move to make the situation right. Sadly this incident involves deaths rather than just theft.
Another thought: This incident points to precisely the same type of litigation that self-driving cars will have to face, in fact in those cases the service provider/manufacturer will be hit even more since there will be no driver to "take the fall".
- DrStalker 13y agoI think that is going to be the biggest challenge of driver-less cars; we've seen the massive fuss when people start claiming their accelerators got stuck, what happens when someone claims their car crash was because of a bug in Google Car?
- erikpukinskis 13y agoWell, in some sense it is moot. Driverless cars are a substantial shift in efficiency, so there is a strong economic pressure to adopt them. The fears you describe will only get traction in some markets. That will slow adoption, but it won't halt it. Over time, the statistics about how there are far fewer deaths in driverless markets will shift the dialog. Think about Ireland, where drunk driving deaths are understood by the public to be a legitimate public health crisis. If Ireland allows driverless cars and the UK doesn't, then the forcing function will be in place and the UK will eventually bend.