[birdyrooster]

The person shirking their duty knew the risks and was even profiting from their negligent behavior. Meanwhile a person lost their life who has nothing to gain from this. I blame the employer and the employee. Employers shouldn’t set their employees up to fail, and employees should know a risky proposition when they see it.

[psd1]

The stated promise of self-drive is reduction in accidents.

The accident victim didn't sign up for this, but as a member of society she did stand to gain something; to wit, harm reduction. I do see the grim irony, but, nonetheless.

Generally, it's the trolley problem. (Although in this specific case there's an element of human fault.)

[taskforcegemini]

and if there is no accident, due to intervention of the driver, will the situation even be noted somewhere? in similar threads on hn there are many near miss stories.

[jcosentino11]

This assumes employees have the privilege of walking away from a risky proposition.

[NoZebra120vClip]

> Vasquez had previously spent more than four years in prison for two felony convictions — making false statements when obtaining unemployment benefits and attempted armed robbery — before starting work as an Uber driver, according to court records.