[jamesgeck0]

Maybe her death wasn't in vain, but it was definitely avoidable. If Uber rushes out half-baked driverless cars, fallout from the incidents they're responsible for will cause serious delays to widespread deployment.

Trading lives to save on R&D time would violate professional codes of ethics in literally any other industry.

[rightbyte]

Her death was in vain. These kind of fundamental scenarios can be practised with dolls or stunt men on closed test tracks not on public roads ...

If Uber needs data they could have driven manually. Obvously their obstacle tracking is bad.

[Fricken]

It wouldn't violate professional codes of ethics in a war, and we're taking wartime casualty numbers on our roads everyday.

This is the real trolly problem when it comes to the ethics of developing self driving cars.