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by TeMPOraL 146 days ago
Being transparent about such incidents is also what stops them from potentially becoming a business/industry-killing failures. They're doing the right thing here, but they also surely realize how much worse it would be if they tried to deny or downplay it.
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> they also surely realize how much worse it would be if they tried to deny or downplay it.

Indeed. Waymo is a much more thoughtful and responsible company than Cruise, Uber, or Tesla.

"Cruise admits to criminal cover-up of pedestrian dragging in SF, will pay $500K penalty" https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/cruise-fine-criminal-cov...