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by dsfyu404ed 3007 days ago
>"One of my big concerns about this incident is that people are going to conflate an on-the-spot binary assignment of fault with a broader evaluation of the performance of the automated driving system, the safety driver, and Uber's testing program generally,"

Self driving cars are currently in that state where they're always in accidents but never technically at fault. When individuals have this behavior patter their insurance company drops them because if they're so frequently present when shit hits the fan they're a time bomb from a risk perspective.

Edit: meant to reply to parent, oh well.