[jonathanyc]

I don’t think Google is a good example of a company that would understand the dangers involved, given how flippantly they’ve responded to government action in the past. GM I would trust more solely because at least the engineering of cars goes through strict and government-mandated testing.

[pwthornton]

Maybe Apple, Carnegie Mellon, etc.

What I do know is that Uber, a company with virtually no scruples, is very far down the list of company's that I would trust to develop their own self-driving technology. It makes total sense for them to use self-driving cars to replace human drivers, but I'd feel a lot better about this if they leased it from another company.

[prestonh]

Uber basically does own the Carnegie Mellon CS department, they hired up most of the faculty a few years back.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carn...

[wpasc]

GM ignition switch scandal is far more egregious than anything Google has done IMO.

[jonathanyc]

The ignition switch scandal is horrible and disgusting, but it helps that Google hasn’t before had to build any products that could have life or death impacts on their users. I suppose the closest you can get is when the revelation came out that Google had been uploading locations of Android phones even when the settings were flipped off, people criticized the danger this posed to domestic-abuse victims.