[sonthonax]

If Uber had bothered to follow a basic safety protocol that person would still be alive today.

Staying alert on watch is something that nearly every solider, security guard, sailor, will have to do. Where you basically stare into the dark in case someone comes.

There are a number of ways to mitigate the inevitable failure of attention:

* Having a parter;

* Doing short shifts (change with partner);

* Very simple non-distracting tasks - like reading out to your parter a figure at a glance.

You certainly should not:

* Be on your own;

* Have a mobile phone on you (all screens should be locked away while moving).

It's so fucking arrogant that Uber didn't care to implement the most obvious risk mitigation. The cost of an additional person on watch is negligible compared to the cost of their self driving care program. My gut feeling is Uber simply misled regulators with how developed their self driving car program is, so it could continue to mislead investors.