[HeXetic]

A prototype self-driving car runs over a person due to negligence on the part of the test operator who was supposed to prevent it and failures on the part of the team who created the vehicle.

It was not negligence or failures that sent killers to an embassy before Mr. Kashoggi was scheduled to arrive, strangled him, cut him up into pieces, sent out a body double as a distraction, disposed of the evidence, and lied about everything.

[kbos87]

Wow, that lets everyone at Uber off the hook for the self driving car incident. The safety operator certainly isn’t blameless, but I’d argue that her eventual complacency should have been predicted and mitigated against by Uber.

[plorkyeran]

If they're both "mistakes" then I guess what he's trying to say is that they deliberately programmed the car to run people over and it wasn't mere negligence?

[Braggadocious]

You dont know, maybe the Saudi Royal Prince had a couple of drinks with his head of security, maybe said a few things under the influence. The head of security also had a few drinks, made a few drunk dials. You know how it is to be a Royal Prince, shit happens.

[gdulli]

It reeks of "no real person involved." Just an inconvenient abstraction to them.

[criddell]

The NRPI expression is something I first heard about on the HBO show Succession. Does that phrase have a history of use before that show? If I google it, I only come up with hits for the tv show.

[elliekelly]

I hadn’t heard NRPI until Succession but I’ve heard NHI for “No Human Involved” in the context of crimes committed against sex workers. The only thing that comes up on Wikipedia is the name of a CSI episode though so I’m not sure if it’s a term that’s actually used by police. I would hope not.

[gdulli]

I only know it from the show. But the term captured something about our society so well that it instantly felt familiar.

[devdas]

The mistake in both cases was getting caught.