[fmpwizard]

I think the sad result of this story is that they are going to keep going with the self-driving car technology. During the investigation into the fatal crash accident they had, they showed how reckless they are. It would be great if they learned anything from the death of that person and rethink QA and decisions, but I doubt it. Time will tell.

[reaperducer]

Or maybe it's a good thing. A recklessly governed self-driving car will kill far fewer people than a recklessly governed self-driving truck.

[TillE]

I really thought they'd pull out of self-driving tech after that. It's insane that they're right back on the roads a few months later. There's no way that's enough time to be sure your broken software isn't going to kill again.

[tjoff]

Software didn't do anything wrong. Emergency braking was disabled and relied on the human driver.

It is just another example of how assisted driving (such as tesla autopilot et al) is much more dangerous than nothing at all - driver disconnects and isn't paying attention, disaster is only a matter of when.

[ghostly_s]

It certainly isn't responsible. But it's their only moonshot route to profitability, so innocent lives be damned.

[charmides]

Did you know that 1.3 MILLION people die in car accidents on a yearly basis? There are extremely good reasons to believe that a mature, self-driving car industry will lower that figure by orders of magnitude.

It is a shame that there have been a few accidents now that the technology is in its infancy, but it is very short-sighted to wish that Uber halts its experiments and delays the technology from taking off.

[a3n]

"Move fast and break things."